If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.