Quotes on Murder

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Author: W. Auden

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Author: Derek Bailey

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

Author: Robert Bourassa

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Author: Pat Brown

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Author: Georg Buchner

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Author: Alberto Fujimori

Each murder is one too many.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Author: Aldous Huxley

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Author: P. James

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

Author: Maria Monk

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Author: Lee Oswald

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Author: Beilby Porteus

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Author: Ann Rule

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Author: Cliff Stearns

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Author: Donna Tartt

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Author: Tertullian

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

Author: John Thaw

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Author: Arnold Toynbee

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

Author: John Wise

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Author: Virginia Woolf