Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes

Interpolated according to the needs of the prosecution

Italy and Greece seemed to be mere suburbs of Venice

Jesus, Son of David and Mary

Knew how short was the space between a prison and a tomb

Let her keep the pearl for the same price she had paid for it

Madly in love-that is to say silly and blind

Method contrary to the laws of nature

More absurd the reports, the more credence did they gain

No vice which has not a counterfeit resemblance to some virtue

Prejudices, which are sacred to the vulgar

Put to the question ordinary and extraordinary

So much a lover that love imposed silence on ambition

The last thing I should desire would be to be as dead as he

To draw back was to acknowledge one's guilt

Too commonplace ever to arrive at a high position

Vanity and self-satisfaction

Very clear-sighted we can be about things that don't touch us

Without fear of being called to account

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