Attempting Quote by Mark Twain

“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

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

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

“To identify the perpetrators, first know the crime.”

— Josef Princiotta

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize…

— George Mason

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

— Seneca the Younger

“There will always be motive for crime, if we ever get to a point where people attacking each other in the streets is commonplace,…

— C. Auguste Dupin

“What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”

— Simon Young

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Well,' the Divisional Commander said, 'one of our police inspectors has taken a possible serial killer from the custody block and nobody knows where…

— Jo Nesbø