Murders Quotes
173 Murders quotes by 140 unique authors
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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of…
— Mark Haddon
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If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.
— Eoin Colfer
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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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
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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
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A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
— Orson Scott Card
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice,…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the…
— Richard Dawkins
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One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.
— Charlaine Harris
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We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders…
— Robert Ardrey
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Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on…
— Mike Carey
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Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
— George Eliot
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page…
— H P Lovecraft
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How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of…
— Charles Yu
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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
— Khalil Gibran
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If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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…
— William Shakespeare
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Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for…
— Alexandra Fuller
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Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or…
— Steig Larsson
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One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the…
— George Carlin
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... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders'…
— Ki Longfellow
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