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Season 5 Quotes

Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a comprehensive list of the quotes from Season 5, the episodes they were in, and which character said them.

The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited for the shows purposes.

Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
5x01 "Faceless, Nameless"
(1 quote)
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." Carl Kraus Rossi




5x02 "Haunted"
(2 quotes)
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place." Emily Dickinson Hotch

"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius Hotch




5x03 "Reckoner"
(2 quotes)
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" Blaise Pascal Rossi

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln Rossi




5x04 "Hopeless"
(2 quotes)
"There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness." Kingman Brewster, Jr. Morgan

"These violent delights have violent ends." William Shakespeare Morgan




5x05 "Cradle to Grave"
(1 quote)
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." Journalist William D. Tammeus JJ




5x06 "The Eyes Have It"
(2 quotes)
"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee..." Matthew 5:29 Morgan

"Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak Morgan




5x07 "The Performer"
(2 quotes)
"In all the darkest pages in the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of a vampire - a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers Reid

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." Writer Cyril Connolly Prentiss




5x08 "Outfoxed"
(1 quote)
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein Morgan




5x09 "100"
(2 quotes)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche Hotch

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." Haniel Long Hotch




5x10 "The Slave of Duty"
(3 quotes)
"It's love that makes the world go round. If that is true, then this world must have spun a little bit faster with Haley in it." W. S. Gilbert Hotch

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes Hotch

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson Hotch




5x11 "Retaliation"
(2 quotes)
"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus Prentiss

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." Washington Irving Prentiss




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wrmross Quote Help 3 Dec 20 2009, 8:07 AM EST by LadyMaramalade
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I don't know what episode I heard this quote. It had something to do with "Success being in relation
eith unconditional acceptance". Anyone who could help with the full quote and the author would be apprciated.

Thanks everyone
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