"When I see the 'Ten Most Wanted Lists' ... I always have this thought : If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now." - Eddie Cantor

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone

"Murder will out, certain, it will not fail." - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." - G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday

"I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?" - Epicetus

"Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards." - George Farquhar, The Inconstant

"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder." - Geoffrey Fisher

"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." - Mark Twain

"Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices." - CLARENCE DARROW, quoted in New York Times Magazine

"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home." - ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. . .
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

"What man was ever content with one crime?" - JUVENAL, Satires

"One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero."
- BEILBY PORTEUS, Death

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue." - SENECA, Hercules Furens

"The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief." - SHAKESPEARE, Othello

"I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression." - EVELYN WAUGH, Decline and Fall

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff