Top 25 Crime Quotes of 688 - Page 16

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Crime, Committed, Suspects

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Vices, Prison, Crime

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime, Professors, Mathematical

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Home, Crime, Difficult

"The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe

Crime, Blunders

"Memorias de Fouche" by Joseph Fouché, 1824.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

Anais Nin

Feelings, Criminals, Crime

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Amy Dickinson

Women, Pay, Crime

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Alexei Navalny

Justice, Crime, Commit

Source: www.spiegel.de

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Albert Camus

Character, Wonder, Crime

Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Alan Autry

Community, Crime

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

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Aeschylus

Men, Deliverance, Crime

Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Political, Politics, Crime

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

William Wordsworth

Time, Hair, Crime

William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.71

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Werner Herzog

Fascination, Devastation, Crime

"Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

Despotism is a long crime.

Victor Hugo

Long, Crime, Despotism

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

Victor Cruz

Cities, Violence, Crime

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Thomas Tusser

Loss, Crime, Greater

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.83, Lackington, Allen

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Stephen King

Ghost, Mystery, Crime

"Stephen King reverts to type with new book Joyland" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2012.

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Rory Carroll

Jail, Crime, Judicial System

"Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.