286 Quotes About Criminals

  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any

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  • Author P. G. Wodehouse
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    I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

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  • Author Simon Wiesenthal
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    None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

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  • Author Steven Wright
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    Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

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  • Author Liu Xiaobo
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    In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

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