Crime Quotes

"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them." ~ The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes. ~ The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed." ~ Othello by William Shakespeare "We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones." ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne "Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience." ~ The Adventure of Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle