Bores Quote by Elsa Maxwell

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

— Multatuli

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing…

— John Hockenberry

“This is the pattern of gun killings in big cities. Most homicides are not professional jobs, in felonious pursuits, but are committed by relatives,…

— Sydney J. Harris

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

— Samuel Chadwick

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

— Rumi

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but…

— Confucius

I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you…

— Bear Grylls

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like…

— Edith Pearlman

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life.

— Alfred Hitchcock