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Murder Quotes by William Shakespeare
- O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
- Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the…
- Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
- That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,…
- Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
- Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
- No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
- For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
- 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…
- 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…
- Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of…
- There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
- ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not…
- Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,…
- My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury,…
- Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!
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- 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,… — Unknown Author
- 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