Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

We are weak—and that is our crime!

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.