Murder Quotes

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

Everything has to do with murder.

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

[Chinese] have no respect for our President - which I can understand that - they have no respect for [Barack] Obama, they have no respect for our country, and they're getting away with murder.

You know, the murder - the number of murders in our country this year [2016], went up more than they have in 45 years.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Murder your darlings.

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

One murder is too many. But it is important that we learn about what has been effective.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. (Rene and Kate on Jim!)