Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists

A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.