Crime quotations

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◆ The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you're a member of Congress.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

- John M. Gottman99

◆ It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

- Alan Moore99

◆ In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.

- Jeff Lindsay99

◆ Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

- Dorothy L. Sayers99

◆ I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

- Criss Jami99

◆ The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ Feeling - what authentic human fun!

- Jeff Lindsay99

◆ When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. - Shinichi Kudo

- Gosho Aoyama99

◆ I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

- Charles Manson99

◆ A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

- A.A. Bell99

◆ Stealing to eat ain't criminal—stealing to be rich is.

- Andrew Vachss99

◆ If poverty is the mother of crime, then stupidity is its father.

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