Murder Quotes - Page 27

• We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Breakfast, Matter

  Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing

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• [First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

  Nora Roberts

  Skills, Tolerance, Lines

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• Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool

  Rachel Caine

  Focus, Fool, Cheeseburger

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• Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

  Cassandra Clare

  Trying, Nephilim, Guests

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, ’cause that’s just creepy.

  Darynda Jones

  Creepy, Causes, Armed Robbery

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.134, Macmillan

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• 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!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Darkness In Macbeth

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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• Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

  John Fowles

  Art, Window, Get Away

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

  John Steinbeck

  Sadness, Men, Mouths

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, White, Lucky

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.77, Penguin

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• Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

  Jennifer Estep

  Trying, Kind, Etiquette

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.454, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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 what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Honor, Done, Dignity

  Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

  Kesha

  Hurt, Sleep, Giving

  Song: The Harold Song, Album: Animal + Cannibal, 2010

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

  Mark Haddon

  Latin, Stupid, Mean

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Fear

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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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 later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jail Time, Fame, Obvious

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Tears, Matter

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• In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Kissing, Way

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Forgiving, Stealing, Traitor

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• We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Knows, Deterrent

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• One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Togetherness, Family Life, Situation

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• You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

  Derek Landy

  Defense, Multiple

  Derek Landy (2010). “Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 5)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Men, Substance

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