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Quotes About Murderer

Forty. She could still feel "forty" the way it felt when she was fifteen. Such a colorless age. Marooned in the middle of your life. Nothing would matter all that much when you were forty. You wouldn't have real feelings when you were forty, because you'd be safely cushioned by your frumpy forty-ness. Forty-year-old woman found dead. Oh dear. Twenty-year-old woman found dead. Tragedy! Sadness! Find that murderer!
~ Liane Moriarty
She'd never dreamed—make that nightmared—that Dr. Cinatas was a murderer.
~ Unknown
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.
~ Peter Benchley
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.
~ Philip Pullman
A murderer was a worthy companion.
~ Philip Pullman
What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
~ Philip Pullman
Good and evil began to seem incomprehensibly blended in her judgment. It was her belief that evil could not come forth from good; yet here was a murderer who dwarfed in gentleness, patience, and love any man she had ever known.
~ Zane Grey
Oh, is that left over from Shine? I do hope we won't have to eat the food you served to a convicted murderer," Whitney says, clutching her pearls. "He was a triple murderer and he ordered fried chicken," I say. Whitney and her Gang of Idiots are actually taken aback. "Even for you, Queenie Wake, that's low," Piggy Peggy says, looking from Whitney to me. Yes, Peggy, you delivered your line perfectly. "You'd know," I say, stepping forward. She flinches.
~ Unknown
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth;" and "Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."
~ Unknown
Because Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer," I said.
~ Jim Butcher
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."
~ Jim Gaffigan
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer? The mirror's a great place to start
~ Rachel Caine
My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor.
~ Dean Koontz
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
~ Donna Leon
Alcohol stole dignity and friends and family and livelihoods before finally taking the life. Alcohol was a thief. And often a murderer.
~ Louise Penny
One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad
~ Marissa Meyer, Heartless
He had a skinny neck and jug-handle ears to go with his starved skull - the innocent prewar look of a real murderer.
~ Don DeLillo
I took a moment before saying, "You think the murderer is a Brazilian samba trio." Dailey held up his right hand and ticked off fingers. "They're organized. Focused. Motivated. And are in excellent physical condition, by the looks of the pictures on their CD.
~ J.A. Konrath
French biologist 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.
~ Unknown
Would you have references?" "I'm awfully sorry but I haven't. I just arrived in New York, and don't know a soul. Except you." I smiled but she didn't smile back. She stood hesitating, and I said, "It's true that I'm an escaped convict, an active counterfeiter, and occasional murderer. And I howl during the full of the moon. But I'm neat.
~ Jack Finney
But this tacit understanding (admitting it to exist) cannot at all justify the conclusion drawn from it. A tacit understanding between A, B, and C, that they will, by ballot, depute D as their agent, to deprive me of my property, liberty, or life, cannot at all authorize D to do so. He is none the less a robber, tyrant, and murderer, because he claims to act as their agent, than he would be if he avowedly acted on his own responsibility alone.
~ Lysander Spooner