Elsa Maxwell Quotes

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

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.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

I've been racketeered on.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Confess and be hanged.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

The gentleman is guilty of every crime that does not require courage.

There are a lot of weak people out there who will say almost anything they think a prosecutor wants them to say to save their skins.

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

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

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

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.