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Quotes About Murder

I slumped down in the easy chair. 'You've been dead for two hundred years, Henry,' I said. 'I'm fairly certain you can't murder someone who's already dead.' If you could, I thought, the Met would have a form for it.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
~ Ben Bova
Sleep no more!' I cried. 'Montgomery doth murder sleep.
~ Ben Schott
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I think they had something to do with the killing of Mr. Joseph, miss." She laughed, as all adults seem to do when they don't believe something.
~ Benjamin Zephaniah
To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D.
~ Joe Carnahan
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
~ W. H. Auden
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
~ Daniel Baldwin
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
~ Aileen Wuornos
Coffee goes great with sudden death.
~ Gillian Flynn
The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong That boy craved dark Satan's power So he killed his family in one nasty hour Little Michelle he strangled in the night Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight Mother Patty he saved for last Blew off her head with a shotgun blast Baby Libby somehow survived But to live through that ain't much a life —SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy lying shitting oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime.
~ Gillian Flynn
I wish I'd be murdered...Then I'd never have to worry again. When you die, you become perfect. I'd be like Princess Diana. Everyone loves her now.
~ Gillian Flynn
así fue como apareció, de la nada, mientras Rand rogaba por el regreso de su hija: una sonrisa de asesino.
~ Gillian Flynn
Because everyone loves the Dead Girl.
~ Gillian Flynn
The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.
~ Gillian Flynn
The quotes were good, if overpolished. I find this common, and in direct proportion to the amount of TV a subject watches. Not long ago, I interviewed a woman whose twenty-two-year-old daughter had just been murdered by her boyfriend, and she gave me a line straight from a legal drama I happened to catch the night before: I'd like to say that I pity him, but now I fear I'll never be able to pity again.
~ Gillian Flynn
And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be?
~ Gillian Flynn
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION
~ Gillian Flynn
I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan.
~ Gillian Flynn
What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son?
~ Gillian Flynn
In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.
~ Gillian Flynn
Why else would you pull out a dead little girl's teeth?" "He took her teeth?" "All but the back part of a baby molar.
~ Gillian Flynn
So I killed a hobo today, honey . . . hahahaha! Ah, we have fun! Nick
~ Gillian Flynn