Crime Quotes - Page 20

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

Stupidity is not a crime.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.