Murder Quotes

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You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries. — Garrett Fort
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. — Norman Mailer
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley
I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong. — Stanley Kubrick
You've committed murder just as much as HÃ©lÃ¨ne did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a human with a fly head.… — James Clavell
What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the… — Lester Cole
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward… — Edward Dahlberg
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were… — George Bernard Shaw
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and… — Don DeLillo
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it.… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
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… — John Dos Passos
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion? — Samuel Richardson
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who… — Ellen Glasgow
It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder… — Billy Wilder
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man… — Maria Jeritza
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of… — Mary McCarthy
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot. — Max Frisch
My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder. — John Christie

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