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Murder Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less…
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
- 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…
- A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…
- It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special…
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- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its… — Saint Basil
- My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to… — Jack Benny
- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. — Alfred Adler
- War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
- Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant
- I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing,… — Bono
- Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
- Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. — George W. Bush