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Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime. - Vittorio Alfieri Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena, Nel delitto e la infamia.] - Vittorio Alfieri, Antigone (I, 3) The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce La pena spetta.] - Vittorio Alfieri, Antigone (II, 2) Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo, Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.] - Vittorio Alfieri, Oreste (I, 2) Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. - Woody Allen Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.] - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus), Annales (XXX, 9) It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker. - Bias of Priene There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 870) Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. - Henry Thomas Buckle A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Lady of Lyons (act IV, sc. 1) Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. - Edmund Burke Responsibility prevents crimes. - Edmund Burke Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3) Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first. - George Colman ("The Younger") The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.] - Pierre Corneille, Essex (IV, 3) But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. - William Cowper, Task (bk. VI, l. 439) For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. - Thomas Creech Man's crimes are his worst enemies, following, Like shadows, till they drive his steps into The pit he dug. - Creon The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity. - Mazo de la Roche One crime is everything; two nothing. - Dorothee DeLuzy What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. - Paul Eldridge Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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