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Quotes About Murder

Auschwitz was unusual, however, in one important respect. Unlike the death pits in the doubly occupied zone and the occupied Soviet Union, unlike the death facilities at Be??ec, Sobibór, Treblinka, and Che?mno, it was the planned murder site for very large numbers of Jews who were still citizens of states that Germany recognized as sovereign.
~ Timothy Snyder
She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove the livestock into the barn, bolting it shut, and while the goat kids and spring lambs panicked and brayed, she put all the buildings to flame.
~ Toby Barlow
gas. I could look it up and get back to you, if you like.
~ Todd Borg
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
~ Tom Araya
One of the astounding qualities of that family was their capacity to fill innocent bystanders with thoughts of murder.
~ Tom Baker
Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.
~ Tom Baker
Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
~ O. J. Simpson
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
~ Ben Stein
The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.
~ Wes Craven
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that. says Dorian. Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, says Lord Henry
~ Oscar Wilde
When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of Time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.
~ Oscar Wilde
What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.
~ Oscar Wilde
But this murder--was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really
~ Oscar Wilde
Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?
~ Osip Mandelstam
I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well. ~ Bertram Bertie Wooster
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bayliss resumed reading. He was one of those readers who, whether their subject be a murder case or funny anecdote, adopt a measured and sepulchral delivery which gives a suggestion of tragedy and horror to whatever they read. At the church he attended, children would turn pale and snuggle up to their mothers when he read.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I killed him with my niblick, said Celia. I nodded. If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing? Motive - Don't know. What do you mean Don't know ? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None. You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.
~ Pamela Branch