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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