We find no evidence that Congress intended to modify the nostrum to read, ‘crime does not pay, except for attorney’s fees.’
Crime Quotes
It’s no crime to steal from a thief.
The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn’t deserve to have any.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
