And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?””That would be a very good question,” said Miss Marple. “I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory...

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,...

My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator,” he shouted at the cops. “They were vile, but they didn’t deserve to be taken out with the trash!

I murdered all my staff. I’m terribly sorry. I thought they were someone else (my wife).

I introduced myself as the man who’d introduce her to her future husband. Then I called over my clone, knowing full well that after they’d fallen in love and gotten engaged, I was going to...

My name is Mr. Murderedscott. But if you want to know what happened to Scott, I didn’t kill him.

Though she had been surprised to find that murder was so thoroughly enjoyable, Mrs Bennet did not believe that this reflected any fault or wickedness in her character. She knew she only committed these acts...

How came she by her death? How came she there? Was she slain by accident, or had she met with violence? were the questions that pressed upon our thoughts. But we said little then and...

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas...

If I were a shovel salesman, my biggest customers would be murderers. Oh, and spurned lovers trying to bury the past.

Not that bad.

SWAT? For me?” Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under my nose.”Tactical Support was busy. You got Dennis and Arlo,” said Harry, speed-reading...

Murder was deeply human. A person was killed and a person killed. And what powered the final thrust wasn’t a whim, wasn’t an event. It was an emotion. Something once healthy and human had become...

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of...

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the...

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

death play” of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.

This is my life,” Mandy declared, smiling sincerely. Alecto just looked concerned and very doubtful as the rain drizzled down the roads and sidewalks, towards the harbour where it fell into the ocean, indistinguishable from...

He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file’s pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of...

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?” says Peeta. “It costs everything you are.

If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible...

After the second world warin 1948they founded the UN,the United Nationsso that a crime like the mass-murder ofthe Jewscould never happen again.Now the UN is a flourishing organizationa honourable institution,the only thing is that it...

I write because, if I don’t, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

Get real. They’ll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You may be impressed with this genius shit but you should really find out...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

It’s kind of like… It’s kind of like playin’ a basketball game. I am there and the other player is there, and it’s just the two of us and I put the other player’s body...

The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger.

Dream murderers are people who refuse to learn and optimize their own dreams. They discourage others from going ahead to make it happen. Why? Because they don’t want go higher and they want everyone to...

We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa,...

A son for a son, heh. But that’s a grandson…and he never was much use.” –Walder Frey

If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments...

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

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless...

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

It stretches things pretty badly. It’s a good murder mystery, though.

I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what you’ve done, you’ll be dead as well. Your brain goes...

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don’t bother me one bit.

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.

God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of—the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to...

It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own hands and to willingly, consciously take it from him. Acknowledged or not, something...

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest