Crime and punishment Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky Download Open image “Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime and punishment Delightful Delightful things Inspirational Lying Truth
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“What has become clear is that lies are just a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Lying to spare a person's feelings, even when… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Mathias remembered that once when he was a boy, he'd gone up to a pile of red apples that lay in the market cart,… — Riccardo Bruni Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic… — Dimitri A. Bogazianos Copy Share Image
even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it? — Frances Noyes Hart Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
