Quotes About Murder

Somoza admitted that he had issued the order to have Sandino murdered after receiving the approval of the American minister. The minister hotly denied any involvement in the plot and and the State department issued a statement disclaiming any part in Sandino's death.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?

Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right—a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five.

I'm well aware that immortality is simply an illusion we carry with us to keep ourselves functional from day to day, but the idea of a murder contract was inconceivable to me.

All Southern women have murder just under the surface, but we cloak it in graciousness.

A gunman is terrorising young women. What links the attacks? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun or do the police have two snipers on their hands? BOOK 5: THE SHADOWS IN

His great love, however, was the detective story, which he described as "the one dependable and unfailing anodyne in a world so realistically murderous that fictive murder becomes refuge and retreat.

Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net. For he was just a San Diego cop who drove a boat, not a true man of the sea. Not one who understands in his soul that the actions of people are like the tides that chase the moon but invariably come crashing back, with all manner of thrashing things roiling in their foamy wake.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

I've been telling you that you should hire Warren." "Nat, I'm not going to hire Warren." "Why not?" I opened my mouth to tell her exactly why not, but as I stared at her too-bright blue eyes and the way her chin was quivering, I chickened out. "Because…because I promised Angus when he left that he could have his job back." "Adrien, he was involved in a murder ." "But he was very good at alphabetizing.

He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down." "I'm lucky that way," I said. "So are you two square again?" I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. "Well, he's pretty square," I said. "I'm just a rectangular guy." With latent triangular tendencies.

I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?" "I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.

Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?" "Something in my body language?" He groaned. "That was bad—even for you.

I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde." That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder

Important Tip: Avoid arsenic in any dishes. Seems that a dead guest has a way of putting a damper on a party. Go figure.

the most recent murder. Now she came up to me in first period to say I should sit with her at lunch. This was a definite step up from my old spot in the cafeteria. She wanted to know if my father had any new leads. "Even if it's top secret, none of us would breathe a word

THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.

killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the

La traición y el asesinato van siempre juntos, como dos diablos unidos en un yugo que por el mismo fin trabajan tan groseramente por interés natural que la imaginación no se asombra ante ellos. Pero a ti, contra todo decoro, te estaba reservado, provocar asombro, al tiempo que traición y asesinato. Sea cual fuere el diablo que ha obrado sobre ti, se ha ganado fama de excelente en el Infierno.

In Pioche, Nevade [while in hiding], in April 1871, he [Philip Klingonsmith] made his affidavit regarding the massacre, the first of all who had participated to break openly the pact of silence. After acting as a witness in the first trial of Lee, he returned to Nevada... he was found dead in a prospector's hole in the state of Sonora, Mexico, apparently murdered, the inference being that he had been pursued by avenging members of the Mormons and had been killed for being a traitor...