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Murder Quotes - Page 9

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

"Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

Nature is a series of murders.

"Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

"James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

James Ellroy (2012). “Conversations with James Ellroy”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.104, HarperCollins UK

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Song: Twinz, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998