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Quotes About Murder

A murdered author was a marketing hook to die for. Jane
~ Elizabeth Young
You are looking at a murdered man, Father Prior. A man's hand fitted that arrow, a man's hand drew the bow, and for a man's reason. There must have been others who had a grudge against Rhisiart, others whose plans he was obstructing, besides Saint Winifred. Why blame this killing on her?
~ Ellis Peters
Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.
~ Ellis Peters
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
~ Alice Sebold
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
~ Alice Sebold
They have eliminated Mrs Sullivan, Miss Henshaw and Mrs Philpott, for now at least
~ Alys Clare
L'assassin,, c'est vous, et vous avez tué deux personnes. Aussi longtemps que Léopoldine vivait dans ma mémoire, sa mort était une abstraction. Mais vous avez tué son souvenir par votre intrusion de fouille-merde, et en tuant ce souvenir vous avez tué ce qui restait de moi.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Le meurtre a ceci de comparable avec l'acte sexuel qu'il est souvent suivi de la même question : que faire du corps ?
~ Amelie Nothomb
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
~ Barack Obama
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
~ Karen Hughes
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
~ Margery Allingham
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
~ Evan Hunter
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
~ Pat Brown
It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.
~ William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
~ Pat Brown
I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
~ Adrian McKinty