Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Crime Quotes
They who overlook a crime, encourage the commission of another.
It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief.
Success consecrates the foulest crimes.
A nation is no better than its charlatans.
The thief is no danger to the beggar.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (Hamlet)
A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art; ‘Tis mean to rob a hen roost, or a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentlemen.
Didst thou never hear – That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? (Henry VI)
The informer is the worst rogue of the two.