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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
-Johann von Goethe
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
-Emma Goldman
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Crime generally punishes itself.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
-William Hazlitt
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
-Horace
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
-Edward W. Howe
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A thief believes everybody steals.
-Edward W. Howe
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
-John Huston
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Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes. Retribution for wrongdoing must be swiftly and surely applied if greater problems are to be prevented.
-I Ching
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
-Ben Jonson
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Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
-Juvenal
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.
-David Letterman
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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
-James Russell Lowell
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
-H. L. Mencken
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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
-Owen Meredith
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
-Henry Miller
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It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
-Jill Peterson
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
-Plato
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
-O. Henry Porter
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He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
-Francois Rabelais
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
-Jean Racine
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Books about Crime
