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Quotes About Murder

Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
~ Jason Aaron
They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
~ Philip Hone
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
~ Grover Norquist
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
~ Andy Partridge
Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. (Rene and Kate on Jim!)
~ Ilona Andrews
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~ May Sarton
floor in a pool of blood. His eyes were open. Blood and saliva trickled from his mouth. The
~ Beverly Barton
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
~ Bill Bryson
Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.
~ Bill Bryson
Robert G. Elliott was not a murderous person by nature, but he proved, no doubt to his own surprise, to be rather good at killing people.
~ Bill Bryson
New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is--murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit.
~ Bill Maher
Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.
~ Bill Watterson
When i believe in everything, I could not see the actors semicircled around a studio microphone flipping the pages of scripts in unison. I only heard the voices, resonant, electric, adult, accusing each other of murder.
~ Billy Collins
If Gisele murdered her husband, I can assure you my Henri wasn't involved. He's much too lazy for murder.
~ Brad Meltzer
The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.
~ Bram Stoker
I remembered how Raphael had wondered which of the People of the Alcove had been murdered and how the simple fact of her posing the question had made the whole World seem a darker, sadder Place. Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.
~ Susanna Clarke
A wave of sadness and helplessness washed over me. I wanted to say that the People of the Alcove had not been murdered by Arne-Sayles (though I have no evidence to support that assertion and the probability is that at least one of them was). Mostly I wanted Raphael to come away from them so that I could stop thinking of them the way she thought of them – as murdered – and go back to thinking of them the way I always had before – as good, and noble, and peaceful.
~ Susanna Clarke
Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
~ Susanna Kaysen
What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?
~ Sylvia Plath
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create. And time for all the works and days of hands That life and drop a question on your plate;
~ T.S. Eliot
That's the hardest thing to cope with when a young person dies—especially when they've been murdered. The unfulfilled dreams, the unrealized potential. The people close to them—family, friends—thought they had so much time to make up for mistakes, plenty of time down the road to tell that person they loved them. Suddenly that time is gone.
~ Tami Hoag