Crime Quote by Jean Racine Download Open image “Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.” — Jean Racine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Degrees Virtue
“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may picture it,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] — Horace Copy Share Image
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] — Joseph Fouche Copy Share Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.” — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. — Jean Racine 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