Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religion, Crime, Thousand

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

• Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sloth, Laziness, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

• There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Sloth, Causes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

• Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Husband, Wife, Adultery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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