Abscond, v.i. To “move in a mysterious way,” commonly with the property of another.
Crime Quotes
Robber, n. A candid man of affairs.
Seven National Crimes: 1. I don’t think. 2. I don’t know. 3. I don’t care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there, picking the locks, they are always locking three.
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge. First, the criminal who slays; then the sophist who defends the slayer.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.
He talked of going to Streatham that night. Taylor: “You’ll be robbed if you do; or you must shoot a highwayman. Now I would rather be robbed than do that; I would not shoot a highwayman.” Johnson: “But I would rather shoot him in the instant when he is attempting to rob me, than afterwards […]
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Talking of the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, in which criminals were punished, by being confined to labour, (Johnson) said “I do not see that they are punished by this; they must have worked equally had they never been guilty of stealing. They now only work; so, after all, they have gained; what they stole is […]
