Jail Quotes

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. (Kurt Cobain)
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. View quote
Billie Holiday
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The letters from jail are always disconcerting. View quote
Eliza Dushku
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? View quote
Asif Ali Zardari
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. View quote
John Donne
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. View quote
Samuel L. Jackson
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. View quote
Samuel Johnson
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. View quote
Gene Simmons
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. (Robert Anton Wilson)
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. View quote
Charles Bukowski
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! View quote
Kurt Cobain
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie. View quote
Richard Nixon
Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? View quote
Victoria Gotti
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. (Polly Toynbee)
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. View quote
Groucho Marx
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. View quote
Joan Baez
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk. View quote
Liza Minnelli