Murder Quotes

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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's… — Meg Cabot
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most… — Sue Grafton
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit… — J R Ward
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.… — Nora Roberts
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep. — Frank Zappa
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?… — Oscar Wilde
(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my… — Corrie Ten Boom
There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie — Janet Evanovich
Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops. — Tim Dorsey
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History… — Sarah Vowell
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals… — Dinesh D'Souza
You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be… — Terry Pratchett
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who… — Marcus Luttrell
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do… — Terry Pratchett
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. — Orson Scott Card
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but… — William Shakespeare

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