Crime Quote by Voltaire

“And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower],…

— William Bradford

“It’s a metaphor,” I explained. “He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn’t give it the power to kill him.” The stewardess…

— John Green

“Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society…

— Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

“When a sailor’s drowned body was found tangled in lines over the port side, the men agreed he must have fallen overboard in the…

— Marcus Sakey

“How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction! How can He…

— Daniel Defoe

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and…

— Cornelia Funke

“A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones! Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company? What place? what time? what…

— William Shakespeare

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and…

— Cornelia Funke

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say,"…

— Terry Pratchett

“One of the maxims which the devil, in a late visit upon earth, left to his disciples, is, when once you are got up,…

— Henry Fielding

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

“in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, the prisoner stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path on…

— George Orwell