Murder Quotes - Page 7

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.