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Quotes About Murder

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.
~ J. J. Wall
My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.
~ Robert Sylvester
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
~ Harry S Truman
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
~ Thomas Paine
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
~ Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
~ Jean Rostand
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
~ Voltaire
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
~ Moliere
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
~ H. L. Mencken
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Insubordinate/undisciplined witch—murders colleagues, not on board with mission objectives, declines to disclose functionality
~ Neal Stephenson
Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?
~ Neal Stephenson
never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?
~ Neal Stephenson
A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As
~ Nelson DeMille
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They
~ Nelson DeMille
Somewhere in between the cynical lies and a naïve trust in the human race was the true human condition: complex and capable of anything from heroism and self-sacrifice to betrayal and murder.
~ Nelson DeMille
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.
~ Nelson DeMille
I don't know much about auto mechanics, and Jack the Ripper didn't know much about anatomy.
~ Nelson DeMille
It's like one of those affairs in books, said Bailey disgustedly.Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it. What do you say, Roper? said Alleyn. To my way of thinking, sir, said Sergeant Roper, these thrillers are ruining our criminal classes.
~ Ngaio Marsh
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
~ Seamus Heaney
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
~ Denise Mina
Youve got all your classic, as you say, murder mysteries and they will continue to appear on our screens. That type of film and TV I dont think will ever go away.
~ Danny John-Jules
The Brits make the best murder mysteries - I mean, did you see 'Broadchurch'? Wasn't it amazing? I love the mysteries and trying to put it all together.
~ Rachel House
For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother.
~ Christina Dodd