Frank Abagnale Quotes

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

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.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.