Murder Quotes

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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating… — William Gibson
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference… — Wendell Berry
It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put… — Carey Mulligan
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.… — Christopher Bollen
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with… — Christopher Bollen
People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be… — Rudy Giuliani
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express… — Christopher Bollen
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very… — Christopher Bollen
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. — William Shakespeare
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop… — William Shakespeare
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:… — Ambrose Bierce
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. — Unknown Author
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime. — John Dryden
Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties… — Thomas Paine
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,… — Susan Sontag
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal… — Joe Eszterhas

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