Murder The Quotes

#1. I am purely evil;
Hear the thrum
of my evil engine;
Evilly I come.
The stars are thick as flowers
In the meadows of July;
A fine night for murder
Winging through the sky.

Ethel Mannin

#2. The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The "death play" of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.

Richard J. Borden

#3. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#4. The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#5. Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.

Arnold Bennett

#6. It seemed a bit euphemistic to call a murder an incident, almost as if it were in the same category as a purse snatching.

Joyce Tremel

#7. Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'

Ian Anthony Dale

#8. There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Kate Millett

#11. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

#12. Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Osama Bin Laden

#13. Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.

Ian Svenonius

#14. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Pythagoras

#15. Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.

Andrew Barrett

#16. Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

Bryan Fields

#17. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Rosa Brooks

#18. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies Of Hereford

#19. All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow."
"No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.

J.K. Rowling

#20. Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205

J.R. Ward

#21. For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Christiane Amanpour

#22. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.

Dean Koontz

#23. Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

Mike Royko

#24. A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

John Dos Passos

#25. As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

Mark Billingham

#26. And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...

Rebekka Kricheldorf

#27. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.

Nora Roberts

#28. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#29. Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I'm desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, caught in the middle.

Marie Lu

#30. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

Charles Manson

#31. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

James McBride

#32. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love

Euripides

#33. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Gennaro F. Vito

#34. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Laurell K. Hamilton

#35. The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Aaron Klein

#36. I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

Snoop Dogg

#37. Madness doesn't get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.

Benjamin R. Smith

#38. Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

Graham Greene

#39. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

#40. Four years later, after Mathias had killed a further four women, and he could see that all the murders were an attempt to reconstruct the murder of his mother, he concluded that he was mad.

Jo Nesbo

#41. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.

Jonathan Maberry

#42. Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

Steven Morrissey

#44. I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?"
"Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly.
"No, of course not!"
"Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.

William Ritter

#45. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#46. In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw

#47. There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.

Cassandra Clare

#48. I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.

Bridget Of Sweden

#49. The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin's critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.

Luke Harding

#50. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Justine Larbalestier

#51. But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

Donna Tartt

#52. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice

Kate Morton

#53. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

James Joyce

#54. When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

Paula Fox

#55. With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?

Emile Zola

#56. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Susan Howatch

#57. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

Jung Chang

#58. One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Demetri Martin

#59. The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

Cesare Beccaria

#60. A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself

Mother Teresa

#61. After the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth

Leo Tolstoy

#62. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

Elizabeth Bowen

#63. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Saul Bellow

#64. A library is a room where the murders take place.

J.B. Morton

#65. There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.

Stephanie Bond

#66. The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Ida B. Wells

#67. You're sure you didn't leave? Didn't try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don't know, dismember some poor jogger?

Kendare Blake

#68. A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#69. The Bible is a novel that's crazy ... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

Fred Hammond

#70. But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Alexei Sayle

#71. Also, I thought, I can always delay the murder. . . . I can let my mind have this company it craves and I can always kill him later on. But I'm sure you know such reasoning is false, because once we grow to love a person, we are not likely to want that person's death.

Anne Rice

#72. Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.

H.S. Crow

#73. The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

James Ellroy

#74. The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.

Gemma Malley

#75. A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

Robert Traver

#76. It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

Chris Womersley

#77. She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.

Lindsay Marie Miller

#78. ...My hands shook, and I stared at them. Another
loss of control. That was the second time this month. Sooner or later, I'd
break, if the department didn't put me down first.

Holly Rutan

#79. Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here."
"You're sure?"
"Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.

John Sandford

#80. Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.

Mother Teresa

#81. The principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.

Lord Acton

#82. A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

Gilbert N. Lewis

#83. Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.

Dee Brown

#84. The black homicide rate is seven times that of whites, and the George Zimmermans of the world are not the reason. Some 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Why should we care more about black criminals than their black victims?

Jason L. Riley

#85. The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Marion Roach Smith

#86. I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Duane Chapman

#87. We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

Bill Ayers

#88. Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

George W. Bush

#89. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Earl Warren

#90. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Jennifer Birkett

#91. Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.

Judith McNaught

#92. A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?

Bertrand Russell

#93. I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.

Stella McCartney

#94. He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.

Andy McNab

#95. The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

Seamus Heaney

#96. A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world.

Donna Tartt

#97. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

Aaron Broussard

#98. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.

G.A. Aiken

#99. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.

Andrew Barrett

#100. The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Bill James