Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Goldsmith

Crime generally punishes itself.

Method Man

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no uncriminal crimes.

Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Jo Nesbo

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Jo Nesbo

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

The law provides a protective order for up to 10 years when this particular crime is alleged,

The loss of life and injury in New Mexico due to alcohol-related crimes has to stop.

Emile Durkheim

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Og Mandino

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

O. J. Simpson

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

a natural reaction to crimes of the occupation.

The evidence is clear. This reaches the top -- the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.

Emma Goldman

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Lydia Child

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Michael Koryta

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Mark Steyn

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

Tom DeLonge

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

Simon Wiesenthal

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

Lucan

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Ramsey Clark

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Roger Williams

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Sam Jones

The majority of the crime going on down there is from outside the housing (complex). We've tried just about everything.

The lieutenant told me it's only a property crime. Crime pays here, obviously.

Ruben Aguilar

The initial information indicates that organized crime was involved in the killings of these two public servants.

Elmore Leonard

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

These are desperate criminals, probably involved in the drug trade in some way. They're violent, and they do want you home.

This is organized crime at its top level. This was planned and executed with military precision.

Richard Gephardt

This heinous crime deserves the condemnation of all Americans,