Crime Doesn Pay Quotes & Sayings

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid ... Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. — Coleman Dowell

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. — Ronald Reagan

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may. — Mason Cooley

In the end, crime doesn't pay. — Lane Garrison

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays. — G. Gordon Liddy

I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I said, Sometimes. — Joe R. Lansdale

Time means nothing and when you find the right person, you just know. — Samanthe Beck

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work. — Daniel H. Pink

Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it - make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me - write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. — John Keats

The men who are the most attractive and well-adjusted people I know absolutely love women, and understand how to focus on what she needs, rather than on what he can get. Basically, men need to love women more. — Matthew Hussey

Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it. — Jay Crownover

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort. — Ira Sachs

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate. — Macaulay Culkin

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved. — Leighton Meester

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter

One sacrificed for many. It's not pretty, I know, choosing who it'll be
turning the plan into people. — John Le Carre

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. — Robert Duvall

Love is God inside out. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room. — Stanley R. Jaffe

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process. — Joan Armatrading