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Quotes About Murder

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
~ Aldous Huxley
I'm the sommelier of slaying
~ Alex White
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.
~ Alexandre Dumas
How strange, continued the king, with some asperity; the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.
~ Alexandre Dumas
thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder," he said. "Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
~ Donald T. Phillips
find it, I know you'll come back to me.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died. Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him –they have no idea what I've been hiding or what I do away from prying eyes. But now that my 14-year-old daughter has confessed something so devastating it could destroy our family
~ Dorothy Koomson
It's impossible to say. Normal motives don't necessarily apply to psychopathic personalities. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and cannibalized seventeen people, three of whose skulls were found in his refrigerator." "That's perfectly rational behavior," said Desh sarcastically. "He just didn't want them to spoil.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
~ Douglas Jerrold
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
~ Duane Chapman
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.
~ Alex Kozinski
Serial murder is very uncommon, Peter,' said Charles. 'But the major
~ Jill Paton Walsh
they could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real
~ Jim Bishop
Oswald followed his road of innocence, slightly hurt that Fritz could think a young fellow at a movie could be involved in a thing like murder.
~ Jim Bishop
There was a separate small hole in the back of the head. There was a long vertical
~ Jim Bishop
Get serious. It just ain't all that easy to off someone and get away with it." "We're talking Mexico here, for crying out loud. You know, the country where over sixty thousand people have been murdered by the cartels, and not one person prosecuted? Jeez, it's worse than Chicago." "That's because the prosecutors and judges prefer to live? But we don't have buckets of money like the druggers do. We only have our brains." "Damn.
~ Jinx Schwartz
Tommy to Zack- "Aw, come on. Just a little slow torture, then? Can't I make him scream like a girl, just once?" "I can make the worm disappear for you," Joaquin offered with a dangerous smile. "Permanently." Zack rolled his eyes. "Ignore Al Capone. Murdering the competition is never a good plan.
~ Jo Davis
They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses?
~ Jo Walton
Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.
~ Joan Bauer
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
~ Joan Didion
husband George's murder, I'd come to realize that the world is a messy and unpredictable place.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
Nothing says "commitment" like accessory to murder.
~ Joanna Wylde
Why does this faerie follow you everywhere?" he asked. "Do you think she's plotting to murder you in your sleep?" he teased. My wings and the tips of my feet tingled with anger. But then he reached a finger toward me gently, and the anger melted. "Let's name her Tinker Bell," he said, like I was their child. He swooped his hand underneath me. "Hi, little Tink." Hearing him say it thrilled me-a name Peter had invented, just for me.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.
~ Joe Abercrombie