Murder Quotes - Page 21

• Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.

  Robert Burns

  Hypocrite, Men, Thanks

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.489, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Faithful, Deceit

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• Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Doe, Victim, Plans

  "Flashforward". Book by Robert J. Sawyer, 1999.

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• I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.

  Avi

  Mother, Father, Taken

  Avi, (2004). “The Crispin: Cross of Lead”, Hyperion

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• I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Running, Loving Life, America

  David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries

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• The hoverlanes were murder.

  Troy Denning

  Troy Denning (2001). “Star by star”, Del Rey

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• 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 a v-vegetarian!

  Meg Cabot

  Believe, Done, Vegetarian

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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 of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

  Sue Grafton

  Believe, Police, Dinner

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan

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• 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 murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Jealousy, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.128, Penguin

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• 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. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Opportunity, Body

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.504, Penguin

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• 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 it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Suicide, Thursday, Spices

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Sleep, Lame

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• 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? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• (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 heart and my tongue.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Heart, Together, Tongue

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• My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

  Warren Ellis

  Writing, Focus, Etc

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• There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie

  Janet Evanovich

  Might, Possibility, Suspects

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• 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 only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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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 is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Polio Vaccine, Ideas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

  Terry Pratchett

  Voice, Captains, Would Be

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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

  Believe, Men, Praying

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• 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 put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Country, Bullying, Media

  "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10". Book by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson, www.motherjones.com. June 12, 2007.

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• 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 it for a god).

  Terry Pratchett

  Knives, Discworld, Figures

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

  Orson Scott Card

  Two, Trying, Turns

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.102, Macmillan

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• 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 what is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Lady Macbeth, States

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Fool, Blind

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