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Murder Quotes - Page 6

Failure to love is almost like murder.

"Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Agatha Christie (1971). “And Then There Were None”

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.122, Aeterna Press

If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.

"Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

John Dryden, “The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest”

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.98

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

Tertullian (1960). “Octavius”

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”