It’s a crime if you get caught…

By Nabil Medawar | Published: January 19, 2009
  • A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. ~ Mark Twain
  • After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. ~ John Huston
  • All criminals turn preachers under the gallows. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ~ Evelyn Waugh
  • Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~ Confucian Proverb
  • Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. ~ Jewish Proverb
  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure. All crime in the end is the crime of the community. ~ H.G. Wells
  • Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. ~ Barry J. Farber
  • Crime generally punishes itself. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
  • Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business. ~ Robert Rice
  • Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil. ~ German Proverb
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. ~ Emma Goldman
  • Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell. ~ Malawian Proverb
  • Crime, when it succeeds, is called virtue. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ~ Jean Genet
  • Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. ~ George Farquhar
  • Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • From a single crime know the nation. ~ Virgil
  • Great thieves punish little ones. ~ Author Unknown
  • He has committed the crime who profits by it. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • In times of trouble, leniency becomes crime. ~ Author Unknown
  • It’s a crime if you get caught. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Living is not a reward and dying is no crime. ~ Malagasy Proverb
  • Locks keep out only the honest. ~ Jewish Proverb
  • Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ~ James Russell Lowell
  • One crime has to be concealed by another. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • One crime is everything, two is nothing. ~ Madame Dorothe Deluzy
  • Poverty is not a crime, but it’s better not to show it. ~ Brazilian Proverb
  • Poverty is not a crime. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Small crimes always precede great ones. ~ Jean Racine
  • The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless. ~ Voltaire
  • There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  • There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. ~ Goethe
  • We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. ~ Horace
  • When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. ~ Frank Dane

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