crime (n.)
- atrocity
- breach
- break
- criminality
- delinquency
- dereliction
- enormity
- error
- evil
- evildoing
- failure
- fault
- felony
- genocide
- illegality
- impropriety
- indiscretion
- infringement
- iniquity
- injury
- injustice
- lapse
- lawlessness
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- malversation
- misconduct
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- misfeasance
- nonfeasance
- offense
- omission
- outrage
- peccadillo
- sin
- slip
- tort
- transgression
- trespass
- trip
- vice
- viciousness
- violation
- wrong
- wrongdoing
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime;
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?
"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"—words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
