Petty laws breed great crimes. [ Ouida ]

Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. [ Hannah More ]

Among our crimes oblivion may be Bet. [ Dryden ]

As you from crimes would pardon'd be.
Let your indulgence set me free. [ William Shakespeare ]

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Crimes may be secret, but yet not secure. [ Proverb ]

War is a crime which involves all other crimes. [ Brougham ]

Success makes some species of crimes honourable. [ Seneca ]

History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes. [ Voltaire ]

How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed! [ Mme. Necker ]

Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable. [ Dryden ]

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. [ Epictetus ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. [ Johnson ]

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [ La Bruyere ]

To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. [ Mademoiselle Clairon ]

Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. [ Landor ]

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! [ Percival ]

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. [ Young ]

We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise? [ Young ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. [ Southern ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. [ Jane Porter ]

How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.

Follies committed by sensible people, extravagances said by clever people, crimes committed by honest people: this is the history of revolutions. [ De Bonald ]

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues. [ Balzac ]

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. [ Montesquieu ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]