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Crime Quotes - Page 13

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

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

Targets don't fight crime.

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

"The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

"Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

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

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

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

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

"Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 139,

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

"Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene iii, 1639.