“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
“Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”
“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”
“The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.”
“He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.”
“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”