Crime Quote by Jennifer Birkett

“Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme.”

— Stephen King

“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth…

— Judith Flanders

“Society is nothing more than people cooperating with other people they'd much rather murder.”

— David Wong

“Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?”

— J.D. Robb

“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your own conscience…

— James Duane

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our…

— Anonymous

“It would seem that this is a great crime, of which they are all guilty. How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself, and to…

— Victor Hugo

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons…

— Mark Twain

“All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”

— P.D. James

“How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?”

— Andrew Sean Greer