Murder Quotes

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Took a vow to protect and serve, All you do is disrespect and murder. I ask that you not hurt my kids; This is where you work...this is where I live.

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Nature is a series of murders.

I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

There will be time to murder and create.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.