Murder Quotes

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

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

~ Erin Mitchell

You want a revolution, start murdering innocents.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

~ Dmitry Merezhkovsky

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

~ Derrick Jensen

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

For the record, telling your boyfriend that your not-as-dead-as-you-might-have-implied mother has been arrested for murder doesn’t go over well

~ Tracy Weber

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

~ William Shakespeare

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

~ Thomas Harris

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

~ Patrick Ness

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

~ William Shakespeare

But what if the monsters come?Fancy. Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. We are the monsters.

~ Dia Reeves

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?Humans are full of contradictions.

~ Ai Yazawa

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

~ Johnny Cash

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

~ Patrick Süskind

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

~ Wilkie Collins

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

~ Martina Boone

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

~ Jeff Lindsay

Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, use it well, use it wisely. We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

~ John Steinbeck

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

~ Henry Adams

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

~ Sigmund Freud

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?''Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit...

~ Meg Cabot

I stole a bit of a chopped vegetable and was about to put it in my mouth when Jae’s long fingers closed over my wrist. “What? You can’t eat this raw?”“It’s bitter melon. You won’t like it.” He went into the fridge and came out with something that looked halfway familiar. “Here, leftover bao. There’s char siu inside.”“The red pork stuff? Yeah, I like that. I thought it was Chinese.” “It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.

~ Rhys Ford

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

~ Susanna Clarke

That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you

~ Keri Arthur

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

~ Émile Zola

For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Who are you and why are you here?''I'm here to kill you.''Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

~ Greg Farshtey

God made them as stubble to our swords.

~ Oliver Cromwell

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.

~ Kylie Scott

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

~ Agatha Christie

I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.

~ Carl Panzram

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte

You should have died when I killed you.

~ John Le Carré

I am not a one-issue voter in the sense that indicates I am an ignorant fundamentalist who only cares about one thing. I believe in protecting the environment. I believe in caring for the poor, the orphan, the widow in her distress. These are some of the so-called issues that many of us use to justify voting for Obama. How can we possibly claim it is Christian love for the poor and helpless that motivates us to vote for such a man when he is so committed to the killing of the most helpless among us?

~ Joseph Bayly

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

~ Lynda Barry