CRIME

Related Subjects: Bribery, Evil, Guilt, Justice, Law, Morality, Murder, Offence, Police, Prison, Punishment, Repentance, Retribution, Sin, Thief, Villainy, Wickedness

1. Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.—V. ALFIERI
   

2. Heaven will permit no man to secure happiness by crime.—V. ALFIERI
   

3. There's not a crime
   But takes its proper change out still in crime
   If once rung on the counter of this world.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

4. Crimes not against forms, but against those eternal laws of justice, which are our rule and our birthright.—BURKE, Impeachment of Warren Hastings
   

5. Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.—CICERO, De Amicitia
   

6. But many a crime, deem'd innocent on earth,
   Is registered in Heaven; and these, no doubt,
   Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.—COWPER, The Task
   

7. With ready-made opinions one cannot judge of crime. Its philosophy is a little more complicated than people think. It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The House of the Dead
   

8. Successful crimes alone are justified.—DRYDEN, The Medal
   

9. Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness.—EMERSON, Lectures
   

10. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox,
    and squirrel.—EMERSON
    

11. It is worse than a crime; it is a blunder—words which I record, because they have been attributed to others.—FOUCHE, Memoirs
    

12. Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.—FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
    

13. Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.—A. W. & J. C. HARE, Guesses at Truth
    

14. What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?—JUVENAL, Satires
    

15. If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.—LA BRUYERE
    

16. We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

17. For the credit of virtue it must be admitted that the greatest evils which befall mankind are caused by their crimes.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

18. Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward to suspect others.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

19. The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.—NAPOLEON
    

20. The greater the man, the greater the crime.—Proverb
    

21. Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.—Proverb
    

22. Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.—SENECA, Hercules Furens
    

23. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

24. If you bethink yourself of any crime
    Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace,
    Solicit for it straight.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

25. And who are the greater criminals—those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?—ROBERT E. SHERWOOD, Idiot's Delight
    

26. This dim-seen track-mark of an ancient crime.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus
    

27. They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime
    Are pronest to it, and impute themselves,
    Wanting the mental range.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King