Crime Quote by Daniel Defoe

“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being…

— Fay Weldon

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

“Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable…

— Mary Shelley

“He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Human beings infected with sin, reap plaques and turmoil for punishment due; upon an earthly prison where Satan reigns spreading evil and war to…

— Personal

“Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an…

— Anthony Boucher

“wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety,…

— Bernard Lewis

“The trouble with the Devil is that we see him in the faces of those we hate, justifying our violence toward them.”

— Richard Beck

“The devil is a bad devil.”

— Pedro Okoro

“He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue…

— William Shakespeare

“His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They…

— Manoucher Farmanfarmaian

“In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky