The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.
Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?
Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.
In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.
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.
Unless you can start some worldwide crime wave, I haven’t the strength to defy him.
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.
