Crime Quote by Daphne du Maurier Download Open image ““Her dullness made her own punishment.”” — Daphne du Maurier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. "Don't punish yourself," she… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.” — Michael Foucault Copy Share Image
“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror – parched and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper… — Daphne du Maurier 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
