CRIME in Classic Quotes

1  This mad excitement over, there returned, with ten-fold force, the dreadful consciousness of his crime.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

2  You shall have time to think, and save yourself this crime; I will not loose my hold, you cannot throw me off.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

3  Master Charles Bates, appalled by Sikes's crime, fell into a train of reflection whether an honest life was not, after all, the best.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII

4  My dear young lady,' rejoined the surgeon, mournfully shaking his head; 'crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

5  Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets, at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

6  Then, falling upon his knees, he prayed Heaven to spare him from such deeds; and rather to will that he should die at once, than be reserved for crimes, so fearful and appalling.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

7  Such preparations completed, he moved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet anew and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

8  This was far from being a place of doubtful character; for it had long been known as the residence of none but low ruffians, who, under various pretences of living by their labour, subsisted chiefly on plunder and crime.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII