Crime Quote by Latin Proverb

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil…

— Herodotus

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

— Charles Lamb

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a…

— Thomas More

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and the sciences,…

— Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

— John Webster

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men…

— Rudyard Kipling

“A kind of wonder takes Chaucer over as he pants up Fleet Street and past the walled orchards and gardens of this lovely riverside…

— Vanora Bennett

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

— Robert Owen

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle