Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in read more

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on read more

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.