One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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

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

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

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

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.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The lie is a condition of life.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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

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.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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?

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

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

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

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

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

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

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.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The worst crime is faking it.

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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

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

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

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.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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 worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.