Crime Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have…

— Richard Lovelace

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

— Richard Lovelace

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

— William Blake

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling…

— Victor Hugo

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”

— william blake

“They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a boy. I…

— Denis Avey

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time…

— Gregory David Roberts

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

— William Wordsworth

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

— John Waters