But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each...

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

After further investigation into this incident, we’ve deemed it to be a murder and we’re looking at it with foul play indications.

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William’s little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? — She’s gone.Constance: Oh, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to...

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

If you wanted to kill me, why haven’t you smothered me in my sleep?” “No sport in that.” She gestured towards the ceiling. “Can I expect to be strung up on that bar and gutted...

The men stop coming after Hunt goes missing. We learned from the last brave soul to visit that they whispered all sorts of stories to answer his disappearance. My favorite is that we ate him....

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way...

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

Handsome and brilliantly rich; their fatal flaw is murder.

American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction – it fascinated rather than repelled.

Would you dare to walk with the beast on the dark side of the moon?

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

The ultimate dead end is murder. My house is on a dead-end street, and it’s killing me. My house is so small it’s trying to suffocate me.

Old habits die hard. Especially if those old habits involve murder and death.

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as...

Imagine a murder indictment without identifying a victim, … There is a stunning lack of specificity …

Mr. Lecky had proceeded quickly for several moments before he drew up, shocked. A few more steps and he might have stumbled on his idiot, for the stairs he had been approaching were the front...

His kiss was like no other! His kiss was enchanted and fairy-tale like. He applied pressure, but just enough to feel his tenderness and warmth. I could feel his heart beating wildly as he pressed...

Do you belong to the religion that whip, stone and murder people; because they wanted to enjoy their life.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Do you have to do murder?Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects–a woman’s chastity, and murder. Nobody’s interested in chastity any more. Murder’s all we...

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it...

Unfortunately Brad was there also but he could not be spared because he would be a witness to the murder of his father.

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...

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

[Bang, Bang takes cheery aim at movie clich ”©s while unraveling a murder mystery.] I stuffed in the kitchen sink because I was pent-up, … That way if you don’t like one joke, here’s this...

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest...

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.

It should make you shake and sweat,nightmare you, strand you in the desertof irrevocable desolation, the consequencesseared into the vein, no matter what adrenalinefeeds the muscle its courage, no matterwhat god shines down on you,...

Poirot said “you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing.””what is that?” I asked curiously”everyone concerned in them has something to...

In the distance, steel-blue mountains loomed heavy on the horizon, their shoulders burdened with the same accursed snow the gods were currently depositing upon the lowlands. Between us and the mountains, the vast expanse of...

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Kevin,” I called dinner.

Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge,...

People are trying to kill people. Well, those people need to die.

… Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

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...

People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you don’t think I’m going to go out and do that.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already...

No one is as murderously ‘Islamophobic’ as Islamists are.

But I rather thought–I mean, I heard you’d killed Balder the Fair.””I never did,” snapped Loki crossly. “Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed...

The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe’s guilt. Some shared the secrets and kept the silence. Others would not have believed if they had...