Pithy Ponderings On Mystery And Crime
Gathered From The Four Corners Of The Globe
Quotes 1 2 3 4 5
Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
Sir Winston Churchill & Lady Astor
Lady Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband, I should
flavour your coffee with poison.”
Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.”
Norm Crosby
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands
of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty."
Steven Wright
"If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents,
and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced,
pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
The Jazz Age/ Time Life: College Humor, 1927
“He was the editor of the tabloid ‘newspaper’ but he loved his children.
So he told them he was a burglar."
A friend of John Dillinger
“Johnnie’s just an ordinary fellow. Of course, he goes out and holds up banks and things, but he’s really just like any other fellow, aside from that.”
Woody Allen
“Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”
Steven Wright
“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards.
I got a full house and four people died.”
Chester Gould / Dick Tracy
“Crime does not pay.”
Oscar Wilde
“A community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Dashiell Hammet / Sam Spade
“I won’t play the sap for you.”
Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes
"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Scott Adams
“I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn’t trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.”
Steve Wright
“Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced
everything in it with exact duplicates . . . when I pointed it out to
my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?"
Alfred Hitchcock
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, “It’s in the script.” If he says, “But what’s my motivation?” I say, “Your salary.”
Albert Einstein
“One cannot but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to merely comprehend a little of this mystery everyday.”
Merle Travis / Sixteen Tons
"Step aside -- a lotta men didn't and a lotta men died."
Charlie Chan
"Murder without bloodstains is like Amos without Andy - most unusual."
Bill Becker
“I robbed from the rich, kind of like Robin Hood, except I kept it.”
Shakespeare / Lady MacBeth
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
