785 quotes found
“It’s…The only way I can get on with my life is by forgetting what went on before. Dave used to tell me that I didn’t have control over what the bastard of my father did to me, and that he’d been pu...”
“Eve: "She completely eye-fucked you." Roarke: "I know. I feel so cheap and used." Eve: "Shit. You got off on it. Men always do." Roarke: "True enough, which is why we're so often cheap and used.”
“Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?"Roarke: "Summerset has the night off."Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.”
“We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong,” - Jesse Carlisle”
“Then Cynthia looked at him and smiled, and he knew he couldn’t possibly resist her, no matter what she had done. It felt as though the two of them had just stripped naked and dived off a high cliff...”
“There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked into his waistcoat pockets, admiring prints on the wall tha...”
“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous o...”
“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest frien...”
“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
“Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don’t stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you’ve read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.”
“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.”
“And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
“Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.”
“He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)”
“Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.”
“If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.”
“Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?”
“The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.”
“Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.”
“Crime like virtue has its degrees.”
