Offence Quote by Charles Dickens

“The memos that came from above telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him because they'd been dictated by semi-literates; all…

— Margaret Atwood

“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing…

— Anthony Trollope

“For he would twist a word or a look into a crime and treasure it up in his memory.”

— Tacitus

“He realised what a horrible mistake, crime even, he had been guilty of in demanding such a barbaric thing as a girl’s hand.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?”

— Christopher Fry

“Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future?”

— Elizabeth Garden

“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears…

— Peter Kropotkin

“I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put…

— Hilary Mantel

“For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act accompanied by…

— Alan Dershowitz

“The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious…

— Francis Iles

“Lord Westbury, it is said, rebuffed a barrister’s reliance upon an earlier opinion of his by stating, “I can only say that I am…

— Charles M. Sevilla

“If I were a cop, and I caught a criminal, I’d throw the book at them. A heavy book, like an unabridged dictionary.”

— Jarod Kintz