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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made read more
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more
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
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
