Murder Quotes

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the to...

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about gi...

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You k...

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...

Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of m...

And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day ...

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

When i believe in everything, I could not seethe actors semicircled around a studio microphoneflippi...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical cap...

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wifewhi...

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the di...

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I ...

But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lor...

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been re...

Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-thr...

I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachni...

It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the ...

Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almight...

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, ...

To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent other...

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to k...

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abor...

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, alth...

It's a terrible thing, what we did,” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we ki...

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the m...

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and compl...

Asparagus is in season.

It's a terrible thing, what we did,” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we ki...

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about ...

But if you were investigating a crime,” said Lady Swaffham, “you’d have to begin by the usual things...

You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. 

Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. N...

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol a...

It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.

Blood is thicker than water,"The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a ...

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, bu...

I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalio...

It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and t...

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mut...

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooos...

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...

There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere s...

I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, aft...

I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my e...

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a sup...

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when...

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history...

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...

The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...

Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the gr...

On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something ...

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight throug...

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you w...

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be co...

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can ta...

You should have died when I killed you.

one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,

Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of discl...

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first...

There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there ...

Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?""Every one...

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amor...

Silence rolled at me, in

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcra...

Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewa...

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill y...

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll b...

What do you want?’'I want to play,’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’...

Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st...

But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live tog...