People Quote by Meg Rosoff

“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing…

— Anthony Trollope

“He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.”

— Judy Blundell

“And we can’t afford to miss again. We’ll have to literally stab him in the back.” “If we do that, the people are going…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious…

— Francis Iles

“I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it,…

— Harper Lee

“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You…

— Elizabeth Bear

“Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence is a…

— John Grisham

“Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Sometimes the human's fraud may reach a peak level and drag the credibility under criticism, so it will make him difficulties distinguishing the integrity…

— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author

“What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.”

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

“She'd come to believe that the only real crime was getting caught.”

— Kristen Painter

“Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?”

— Oakley Hall