Famous Quotes - Tags - Murder

  • ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. More
  • ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
  • ...if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death... More
  • A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to... More
  • A curtain of wax dividing them from the bride flight,
    The upflight of the murderess into a... More
  • A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to... More
  • A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. More
  • An honorable murderer, if you will,
    For naught I did in hate, but all in honor. More
  • Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction? More
  • Bruno Antony: Tell me, Judge, after you’ve sentenced a man to the chair, isn’t it difficult... More
  • But he did for them both by his plan of attack. More
  • But never did Henry, as he thought he did,
    end anyone and hacks her body up
    and hide the... More
  • But now I am weary and my old heart, which thought itself turned away from all, has learned pain... More
  • Come to think of it, Pasadena’s as good a place to die as any. More
  • Come, seeling night,
    Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
    And with thy bloody and... More
  • Come, you spirits
    That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
    And fill me from the crown... More
  • Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
    Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
    The... More
  • Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right... More
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair,
    The midnight murderer bursts the faithless... More
  • Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 Fahrenheit than any other... More
  • Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people ... have to walk out of the shadows. More
  • Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. More
  • Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions. But detectives have souls the same as... More
  • Father, whom I murdered every night but one,
    That one, when your death murdered me, More
  • First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you... More
  • For most of the guys killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way everybody stayed in... More
  • For the soul of Philip Sparrow
    That was late slain at Carrow,
    Among the Nunnes Black. More
  • Ghost. The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
    Now wears his crown.
    Hamlet. O my... More
  • He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his... More
  • He’d been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in... More
  • How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I’ve known is... More
  • I am in blood
    Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more,
    Returning were as tedious as... More
  • I cannot choose [to kill Caligula] because, aside from the pain I am suffering, I suffer too from... More
  • I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you... More
  • I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
    But with a lingering dram, that should not... More
  • I could marry him. Yes, he would marry me. Midgets are not strong, he could get sick.... It could... More
  • I didn’t want murder. It’s all gone wrong. More
  • I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner. More
  • I have a blood bolt
    and I have made it mine.
    With this man I take in hand
    his destiny... More
  • I love the old way best, the simple way
    Of poison, where we too are strong as men. More
  • I love y’all. More
  • I met Murder on the way—
    He had a mask like Castlereagh— More
  • I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved—unreliable. As a matter of fact, I... More
  • I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything... More
  • I scare him to death, I don’t have to kill him to death. More
  • I shook off the sweat and the sun. I understood that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the... More
  • I wonder what subtle form of manslaughter is next on the program. Am I to be dropped into a vat... More
  • I wonder where you got your statistics when you say that Theirs executed more people than did the... More
  • If murder is forgiven, Heaven will find it hard to bear. More
  • If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from... More
  • If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let... More
  • Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they just good enough to be assassins. More
  • It feels good because God has power and if one does as God does enough times, one will become as... More
  • It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a... More
  • It is easier to kill what we do not know. More
  • It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim. More
  • It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. More
  • It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is... More
  • It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the... More
  • It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street.... More
  • It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. More
  • It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too. More
  • It’s frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see... More
  • I’m afraid this man will kill me some day. More
  • I’ve no time now, but believe me as surely as the moon will set and the sun will rise I shall... More
  • Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. More
  • List, list, O list!
    If thou didst ever thy dear father love—
    ...
    Revenge his foul... More
  • Lizzie Borden took an axe
    And gave her mother forty whacks;
    When she saw what she had... More
  • Mily: You must remember me!?
    Tadeusz: I never remember pretty women. It’s so... More
  • Mister death who signs papers
    then eats
    telegraphs simply: Shoot them
    then eats More
  • Mordre wol out; that se we day by day. More
  • Murder begins where self-defense ends. More
  • Murder her brothers and then marry her—
    Uncertain way of gain, but I am in
    So far in... More
  • Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does... More
  • Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to... More
  • Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. More
  • Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. More
  • Murder is catching. More
  • Murder is terribly exhausting. More
  • Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place... More
  • Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
    But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. More
  • Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. More
  • Murder will out, this my conclusion. More
  • Murderous desire, hatred, distrust are nowadays the accompanying signs of physical illness: so... More
  • Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do,... More
  • Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later. And when two people are involved,... More
  • Murder’s out of tune,
    And sweet revenge grows harsh. More
  • My father’s spirit in arms! All is not well.
    I doubt some foul play. Would the night were... More
  • Never interrupt a murderer, madame. More
  • No man, said Birkin, cuts another man’s throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other... More
  • No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;
    Revenge should have no bounds. More
  • No, I have no thoughts about anything, even less am I feeling rebellious. That is the punishment,... More
  • Now the devil that told me I did well
    Says that this deed is chronicled in hell. More
  • O the chimneys
    On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
    When Israel’s body... More
  • O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven,
    It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,
    A... More
  • O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
    That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! More
  • Of course, killing you is killing myself. It’s the same thing. But, you know, I’m pretty... More
  • Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly... More
  • One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow. More
  • One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
    Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke. More

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