Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. – Anon.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. – Proverb