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Murder Quotes - Page 5

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

On the moving of murder mysteries from the English country house to more realistic areas. Quoted in Contemporary Authors (1979).

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

1923 Speech against the withdrawal of child benefits, including the supply of milk, in Scotland. In Hansard, 27 Jun.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

Tim Dorsey (2009). “Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins