Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Of course we're Criminals

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South?

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.