Crime Quote by A. H. Septimius

“This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).”

— Tom Robbins

“Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the…

— Gene Wolfe

“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is only to…

— George Eliot

“We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to…

— Winston Churchill

“He comes with those in his employ, to watch, gathering evidence and confession. His success speaks of a countryside rife with evil, an intemperate…

— Becky Wright

“The dressmakers have just arrived from Shylon; they are coming here to display their goods.’ ‘Really, that’s lovely.’ ‘I was wondering if I could…

— A. H. Septimius

“You’ll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body.”

— Anne Brontë

“Today, he saw the true cost of two men’s immovable wills. He saw what happened when men were forced to fight each other for…

— Kiersten White

“Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden…

— Paul Russell

“sometimes you’ve got to kill 4 or 5 thousand men before you somehow get to believe that the sparrow is immortal, money is piss…

— Charles Bukowski

“Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest…

— Plutarch