Crime Quote by Alex Cox Download Open image “The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.” — Alex Cox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Kings Murder Play Shakespeare play
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying.… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“Julius Caesar. His murder is a pivot point for the rest of the action to take place. Other examples?" "Othello," said Amber. "Murder for… — Haley Walsh Copy Share Image
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
