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"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."
"But if I want to murder somebody, will it really be the best plan to make sure I'm alone with him?'Lord Pooley's eyes recovered their frosty twinkle as he looked at the little clergyman. He only said: 'If you want to murder somebody, I should advise it."
"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."
"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."
"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."
"Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb."
Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
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