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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

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

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

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