Crime Quotes - Page 13
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622
Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”
"Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.84
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.26
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.24
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401
"Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 139,
"Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene iii, 1639.