Crime Quote by Philip Beard

“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.”

— Bethany McLean

“It didn’t matter what he’d said or done in life, in death he was innocent.”

— Callie Hunter

“Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.”

— J.D. Robb

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy

“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.”

— Clarice Lispector

“but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.”

— T.H. White

“I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in…

— Wendell Berry

“Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.”

— Charlie Chan

“Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had…

— A Long Way Down Nick Hornby

“had to tell them what happened. How it happened. How many times it happened. I am so very sorry Gaze. And now my punishment…

— Debra Anastasia

“Each body is a death, but not every death is a crime scene.”

— Charles Graeber