Murder Quotes

Welcome to Murder Quotes, the ultimate resource for all your favorite quotes from the world of murder and crime. Here you will find quotes from several of one of the most well-known lawbreakers, detectives, and victims of all time. Whether you're searching for a chilling quote to establish the mood for a murder enigma night or a thought-provoking quote to ponder, you'll discover it below. Explore our collection of quotes from the likes of Hannibal Lecter, Sherlock Holmes, and also extra. Obtain motivated and discover the best quote to reveal your ideas on murder and also criminal offense.
Small: It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality
Virginia Woolf
"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"
Virginia Woolf, Author
Small: Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows
"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"
Albert Maltz, Author
Small: The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his
"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"
Jim Garrison, Public Servant
Small: It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
Small: Fascism is capitalism plus murder
Upton Sinclair
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"
Upton Sinclair, Author
Small: I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens
Jean-Paul Sartre
"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Small: Its frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.
W. H. Auden
"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen"
W. H. Auden, Poet
Small: Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire
William Blake
"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire"
William Blake, Poet
Small: Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens"
Emmanuel Teney, Author
Small: Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"
Tertullian, Author
Small: Murder begins where self-defense ends
Georg Buchner
"Murder begins where self-defense ends"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Small: Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder"
Octave Mirbeau, Writer
Small: All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as
"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death"
Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer
Small: When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
George Bernard Shaw
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
Small: It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder
Albert Einstein
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a spec
Edward Young
"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"
Edward Young, Poet
Small: Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession
W. H. Auden
"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession"
W. H. Auden, Poet
Small: Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victi
W. H. Auden
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"
W. H. Auden, Poet
Small: Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair
Friedrich Schiller
"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbours buzzing glory, and think that such killin
George Eliot
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder"
George Eliot, Author
Small: Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearanc
George Orwell
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"
George Orwell, Author
Small: In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to
Earl Warren
"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do"
Earl Warren, Judge
Small: AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder
Susan Sontag
"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder"
Susan Sontag, Author
Small: The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they
Barry White
"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent"
Barry White, Musician
Small: Im not sure whay Ive been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people
"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories"
Donna Tartt, Novelist
Small: The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the p
"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder"
Jim Morrison, Musician
Small: Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs
Alfred Hitchcock
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
Small: Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I dont want to waste your time, I know you want to
Alfred Hitchcock
"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
Small: Seeing a murder on television can help work off ones antagonisms. And if you havent any antagonisms, the comme
Alfred Hitchcock
"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, Director
Small: A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
Small: Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of s
"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
Small: Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and e
George W. Bush
"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"
George W. Bush, President
Small: Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel
Edmund Burke
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
Small: Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people fo
Barack Obama
"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction"
Barack Obama, President
Small: The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth"
Alfred Adler, Psychologist
Small: The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the se
John Cusack
"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness"
John Cusack, Actor
Small: Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot
Ida B. Wells
"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are pu
Ida B. Wells
"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: The white mans victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder
Ida B. Wells
"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, th
Ida B. Wells
"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
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