One crime has to be concealed by another.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.