Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different…

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

— D. A. Carson

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

— Agatha Christie

“Just look, Letty.” Miss Blacklock looked. Her eyebrows went up. She threw a quick scrutinizing glance round the table. Then she read the advertisement…

— Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most…

— Agatha Christie

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

— Agatha Christie

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”

— Agatha Christie

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.”

— Agatha Christie

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

— Jim Trelease

Feminism was for women, and men never had an equivalent movement or discourse in its wake, so of course the sons of men who…

— Julie Klausner

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

— Robert Burns

One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels.

— Mark McKinnon

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

— Anonymous

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible…

— Agnes Repplier