Felony Quotes

• You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

  Slick Rick

  Doe, Matter, Commit

  "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

  Robert Benchley

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

  Kathy Reichs

  Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.125, Penguin

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• Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Numbers, Criminals, Dollars

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Usual, Holmes, Compounds

  "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes".

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• In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

  Harlan Ellison

  Stupid, People, These Days

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  Carl Bernstein

  Missing, Quality, News

  "The failures of the press". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Liars, Law

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• Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, Winning, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

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• Anything less than the best is a felony.

  Vanilla Ice

  Song: Ice Ice Baby, Album: Hard to Swallow, 1998

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• I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Smoking, Easy

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• The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

  Robert Breault

  Attention, Morality, Sin

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• And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, Drink

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Misdemeanors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.795, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Support, Examination, Confirmation

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• I think bad taste should be a felony.

  Margo Kaufman

  Thinking, Hatred, Taste

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• They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

  Jeb Bush

  Commitment, Law, Broke

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• For the rest of your life you must check the box on employment applications asking the dreaded question: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" And once you check that box, the odds are sky high that your application is going straight to the trash. Hundreds of professional licenses are off-limits to people convicted of felonies.

  Michelle Alexander

  Odds, Sky, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
  If these people were being treated,
  they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or
  felony charges against them in the first place.
  The very existence of mental health courts is really an
  indication of the system's failure.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  People, Firsts, Mental Health

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• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Escaping, Docks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

  Robert Barr

  Book, Men, Issues

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• I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Jail, Done

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