Criminals Quote by Anthony Boucher

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit…

— Leigh Hunt

“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world…

— Francis M. Nevins

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders,…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's…

— William Bernhardt

“When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its creators' avenger.…

— Ayn Rand

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley