Bed Quote by Honore de Balzac

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your…

— Elbert Hubbard

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact,…

— William C. Brown

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

— John le Carre

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take…

— John le Carre

“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner…

— Anonymous

“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path,…

— Agatha Christie

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of…

— Tryon Edwards

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain.…

— Steven Erikson

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer…

— John le Carre