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Quotes About Murder

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
~ Ernest Hemingway
By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.
~ Richard Stallman
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. "Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
~ R. Scott Bakker
He kills her in her own humor.
~ William Shakespeare
If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
~ Neil S. Plakcy, Mahu
I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.
~ Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam
My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.
~ James Aquilone, At Year's End
The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.
~ Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
You know you're dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn't help to cover up a murder.
~ Rosen Trevithick
We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?
~ Rick Yancey, The Isle of Blood
Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?
~ J.D. Robb
I'm beginning to wish I'd had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.
~ Steve Robinson
Don't make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things.""Isn't that called murder?
~ G.A. Aiken
Murder and a glass of wine: priceless
~ Casey Quinn, NUMB
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
~ Derek Landy, Dark Days
Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
~ Nathan Fillion
I stepped off the Learjet at the private airfield just before dawn. I'd been on the plane exactly seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes and fourteen seconds, wearing the same eight-hundred-dollar dress I'd worn when I killed a man twenty-five hours earlier.
~ Jana Deleon
Gertie clapped her hands. "Another murder to solve. Thank God. I was getting bored." "We just had a head fall off in front of us a few weeks ago at the Halloween festival," Ida Belle said. "How many people need to be murdered to keep you entertained?
~ Jana Deleon
The ultimate rape is murder. Sometime during the rape, they cosider killing the victim.
~ Janet Bode
The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.
~ Janet Frame
The Second World War did not begin with a gunshot or a bomb. It began with a feat of deception involving elements long familiar to Elizebeth Friedman— a code phrase, a radio station, and a murder . The men responsible were Nazis, and they belonged to the same part of the Nazi state that would soon attract Elizebeth's deep attention.
~ Jason Fagone
We think this murder, Evelyn Boggs, and the Linklater homicide are all connected to Bennett Brice.
~ Jason Pinter
A woman was murdered. Annie Barrett. She was an artist, a painter, and she used your house as her studio.
~ Jason Rekulak