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Quotes About Murder

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to. You divorce your wife because you don't love her. You murder her because you hate her.
~ Andrew Mayne
It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.
~ Andrew Mayne
And homicides in Chicago are responsible for fifty percent of the increase in the United States' murder rate in the last year. Do you think the problem is deep-dish pizza or that it's become a shitty place to live?
~ Andrew Mayne
Forty." He throws the number out there for a moment. "That's how many people in an average football stadium have murdered someone in the last ten years.
~ Andrew Mayne
If you're Stephen King and you realized halfway through you've created far too many plot lines; you arbitrarily murder a few in the middle of the book. If you're George RR Martin; well, you just keep writing more books and murder them at your leisure.
~ Andrew Mayne
I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.
~ Andrew Mayne
Not only did the barbaric incident shake the king's "confidence in the innate decency of mankind," it inspired his son's lifetime loathing of the Bolsheviks, the murder of his godfather, Nicholas II, setting his heart against the Soviets and all their works.
~ Andrew Morton
Tashday, the first day of classes. I hadn't been murdered in the middle of the night. Success! I didn't feel that successful, though. I felt exhausted, cranky, and a little bit numb.
~ Andrew Rowe
she quickly went from "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without getting blood on her fashionable dress" to "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without closing the book she was reading". A subtle distinction, really, but an important one.
~ Andrew Rowe
The French military saw UNAMIR as 'impinging' on its territory, even if that was presently filled with daily murder, violence and political hatred.
~ Andrew Wallis
is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He was calm and cold. And killed calmly and coldly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on Life, Happiness and Prosperity
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
El asesinato es siempre asesinato, sin importar motivos ni circunstancias. Aquéllos que matan u organizan una muerte son criminales y asesinos, sin importar quiénes sean: reyes, príncipes, mariscales o jueces. Ninguno de aquéllos que planean o ejecutan violencia tiene derecho a considerarse mejor que un simple asesino. Porque toda violencia por su propia naturaleza conduce ineluctablemente al crimen.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.
~ Andy McNab
A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of this deprivation is murder. These women murder.
~ Angela Carter
Dandra Draa killed my father. - Kaznim
~ Angie Sage
There was nothing picturesque here. No thatch. It would never have featured in an episode of Midsomer Murders.
~ Ann Cleeves
And while all those thoughts were rattling around in her brain something else was going on too. An excitement. Because this was a new case that was different from anything she'd ever worked before. Two bodies, connected but not lying together. And nothing made her feel as alive as murder.
~ Ann Cleeves
Perez thought he was stupid to believe that Catherine had been killed because she'd filmed some secret. So little in Shetland was secret. It was simply unacknowledged. There was something Victorian in this need to put on a good show.
~ Ann Cleeves
This was no crossword to be solved by a gentleman in an armchair. Murder was mad and unreasonable and gentlemen had no part in it.
~ Ann Cleeves
He ate with her before he killed her?
~ Ann Cleeves