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Quotes About Murder

but in show business, adultery isn't a motive for murder; it's a lifestyle.
~ James Patterson
We're vampires," he finally whispered to the murdered couple.
~ James Patterson
usual nasal monotone. "The different profiles. How could a man who would set a girl on fire do it only once? How could that same person shoot someone from fifty yards away?" "What are you thinking, Sci?" "What if it's more than one piece of shit? What if it's more than one
~ James Patterson
brutal mass murder had taken place in that white house on the cul-de-sac before us. The Daley family of Omaha—Calvin, Bea, Ross, Sharon, and Janet—were found dead in their home two nights before Christmas.
~ James Patterson
THE THREE OF US leaned against a stone wall in City Hall Park, picking at salad sandwiches we had bought at a nearby grocer's. The murder club meets again.
~ James Patterson
Murder Club Story (with Maxine Paetro) • Black Dress Affair
~ James Patterson
As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'
~ Mark Billingham
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
~ Pat Brown
In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.
~ Ben Shapiro
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
~ Ambrose
From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
~ Melissa Harris-Perry
I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.
~ Dario Argento
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
~ Patricia Cornwell
'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.
~ Ann Cleeves
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
~ Aaron Klein
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.
~ Cliff Stearns
Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~ Thomas E Ricks
Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who does. . . . Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which the villain and the hero are the same character.
~ Thomas E Ricks
Stop it," the voice snapped, so close now that Remy could smell the stink of corruption on its breath, like it had just finished a heaping bowl of murder for breakfast.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it...
~ Thomas Ingoldsby
HIERONIMO. O eyes! no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life! no life, but lively form of death O world! no world, but mass of public wrongs, Confus'd and fill'd with murder and misdeeds! O sacred heav'ns! if this unhallowed deed, If this inhuman and barbarous attempt, If this incomparable murder thus Of mine, but now no more my son, Shall unreveal'd and unreveng'd pass, How should we term your dealings to be just, If you unjustly deal with those that in your justice trust?
~ Thomas Kyd
Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
never thinking. And then it blew up in his face.' Tex leans forward, the stench of soda-masked booze saturating the air. 'He was expecting a reward. But when he started to see what was happening to the witnesses …' The famous 'murdered witnesses' to the JFK assassination,
~ Tim Baker