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Quotes About Murder

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
~ J.R. Ward
Tem mais um defunto morto aqui!
~ Unknown
I'm a decent engineer with an analytical mind. Using my problem-solving skills to whack my husband became a challenge. A fun challenge, in fact. I wanted to put him away so I wouldn't have to pay the price for murdering him. What an exciting challenge for an engineer! Spousal murder as a work project. My juices started flowing.
~ Unknown
For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia,
~ Jack Goldstein
thought I might have to prove later that she was my kill and not somebody else's, so I grabbed two fourteen-inch white plastic ties from the truck and cinched them around her neck for ID.
~ Unknown
don't want to walk around with my imagination to depend on. I have a very evil imagination. It's one of my wicked womanly powers. Much worse than magic." "Is that right?" he asked with a laugh as he turned and crossed over to her. "Oh yes. Lots of exercise involved. I can jump to conclusions in a single bound. I'm more powerful than a murder motive. I'm faster than the town gossip. I am deadly and I must be stopped.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
It's available at Amazon in both ebook and paperback editions right here: THE DEAD AMERICAN
~ Unknown
So is a murder rose until you decide to hold the blossom in your hand and sniff it. Perfectly inviting and even charming until the poisons burn your skull open." "By the gods, man, where do you hear about these things?
~ James A. Moore
Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.
~ James Agee
I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.
~ Luke Scott
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
~ Unknown
We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, and a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.
~ Unknown
scene of a murder in Peckham. It is standard procedure
~ Lynda La Plante
The very first thing you should do if you decide to poison someone's soup is to ascertain if they like pea soup
~ Unknown
Rather, she feared her distress had its roots in the unexpected amiability of the enterprise, the sense of camaraderie that had sprung up between them as they sat quietly by the fire in her room discussing suspects in Mr. Otley's murder. In those moments, she'd felt known by the duke in a way she hadn't been by anyone else, and it made her sad and unsettled to realize how quickly he would cease to know her.
~ Unknown
A crucial instance was the question of the treatment of clergymen who had committed crimes such as murder and robbery, or at least were accused of such deeds. The ecclesiastical courts would not shed blood and were apt to let such "criminous clerks" off with a light sentence, if they found them guilty at all.
~ Unknown
The grieving Lindberghs were convinced that the excesses of the press were responsible for their son's abduction and murder. "If it were not for the publicity that surrounds us, we might still have him," Anne bitterly wrote in her diary.
~ Unknown
Added Seymour Cocks, a Labour member of Parliament: "We are witnessing in Poland the cold-blooded and deliberate murder of a nation.
~ Unknown
Some would call this "volcanic rage"—a mind state that murderers need to enter in order to commit the crime—although they are well aware of what's going on around them. Another
~ M. William Phelps
Shuttle Murder Case.
~ M. William Phelps
NE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARSENICAL POISONING cases on record (which could never be emphatically proven beyond a reasonable doubt) is, of course, that of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was said to have been poisoned to death with arsenic over a period of time by one (or several) of his own men. Regardless
~ M. William Phelps
One day a baking competition, another a murder.
~ M.C. Beaton
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.''*"Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.
~ Unknown
I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.
~ Madeline Hunter