Crime Doesn't Pay Quotes

#1. One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

#2. In the end, crime doesn't pay.

Lane Garrison

#3. The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Laurence J. Peter

#4. I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#5. One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

G. Gordon Liddy

#6. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.

Jay Crownover

#7. I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Robert Duvall

#8. You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Molly Crabapple

#9. Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.

Rebecca McNutt

#10. Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.

Trevor Noah

#11. Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Bernhard Goetz

#12. Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn't look like the proper place for you, said Chase.

Stefania Mattana

#13. Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

Frances Noyes Hart

#14. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

S.A. Tawks

#15. The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Azar Nafisi

#16. One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

Chris Womersley

#17. Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

Elliott Colla

#18. It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

John Ashcroft

#19. Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

Frank Miller

#20. We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

J. Irwin Miller

#21. Faith doesn't move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view.

Corey Redekop

#22. Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.

Catherine Crier

#23. It doesn't bother you, that everyone believes different things?" "Why should it?" he asked. "We all believe the same thing really, we simply give it different names. Hardly a crime." Lila

V.E Schwab

#24. I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

Denise Mina

#25. She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps.

Tana French

#26. Unfortunately, it doesn't ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

Kenneth Eade

#27. Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

James Ellroy

#28. The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

David Shore

#29. Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.

Alexandre Dumas

#30. Almost doesn't count.

R. Felini

#31. Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

S.A. Tawks

#32. There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

Gail Collins

#33. It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.

Ian MacKaye

#34. Blood doesn't speak of its owner.

Mita Jain

#35. The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

Robert Shapiro

#36. TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn't let go, even after you've closed the book.

Tasha Alexander

#37. My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

Alan Zweibel

#38. Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

#39. It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Stephen Breyer

#40. Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Henning Mankell

#41. It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.

Robin Burks

#42. I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

Luke Scott

#43. just because they don't hit you doesn't mean it isn't abuse. wouldn't you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse.

Amanda Lovelace

#44. I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Donna Leon

#45. When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

S.A. Tawks

#46. I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice ... if it doesn't lead to a crime

Lisa Kudrow

#47. Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.

Jacque Fresco

#48. Well having a partner in crime helps a lot! But honestly it doesn't take much to get me psyched. The stage is where I'm most at home, and that has been the case since I was very young. It's where I feel most myself and at ease.

Jessica Harp

#49. Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.

Sophie Hannah

#50. Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle?

Joe Bageant

#51. Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

Daniel Woodrell

#52. Adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

Grace Zaring Stone