Quotes of: Crimes Keyword

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

Life

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Vittorio Alfieri

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.

Lisa Unger

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Donna Leon

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

Crime and Punishment

Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.

Crime and Punishment

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Feet of Clay

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas, 'the way one commits a crime.

Geography III

Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self-image.

Stolen Petals

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

The Prince of Tides

If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Paul LePage

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Pablo Neruda

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

Sarah Lacy

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Steve Schirripa

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

Sara Sheridan

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Tacitus