M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder.”
“Murder, gambling, and beating up women doesn't illicit my sympathy, no matter what kind of language you dress it in.”
Source: The Ruins of Woodman's Village
“Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.”
“Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.”
Source: My Mother: Demonology
“Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?”
“Murder is a lifelong commitment”
Source: Outsmarting the Ego: The Physics of Evil
“Murder is a plant of slow growth.”
Source: The Chiffon Scarf
“Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.”
“Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”
“Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.”
Source: The Ignored
“Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.”
Source: Instead of a Book
“Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.”
“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”
“Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”
“Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.”
“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”
“Murder is negative creation, and every murderer is therefore the rebel who claims the right to be omnipotent. His pathos is his refusal to suffer.
W.H. Auden. "The Dyer's Hand." (September 1, 1939)”
“Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.”
Source: These Shallow Graves
“murder is not polite.”
“Murder is only killing in the wrong place.”
Source: The Ghost Road
“Murder is pollution. The murderer defiles everyone he comes into contact with. And the only way to purify blood is through blood.”
Source: The Secret History
“Murder is rarely an expression of indifference.”
“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”
Source: Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel
“Murder is terribly exhausting.”
“Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.”
Source: Before I Kill More ...
“Murder is the one thing the police are guaranteed to look into. And if it ties back to us, to me, then we’re sunk.
So no murder. We conduct business fairly.
We’re gentlemen.”
Source: The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel
“Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.”
“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.”
“Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.”
Source: Who Speaks for the Damned
“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”
Source: The Devotion of Suspect X
“Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.”
“Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.”
“Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.”
“Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
“Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.”
“Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.”
Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just meat and cold ballistics. Provide a murderer, a motive and a means, and you have solved the crime. Using this method, the solution to the Second World War is as follows: Hitler. The German economy. Tanks. Thus, for convenience, we reduce the complex events.”
Source: From Hell
“Murder shoots, I give your ass good seats”
“murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel”
“Murder was a fever dream, and she never wanted to wake.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“Murder was one moment. Grieving was forever.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.”
Source: The Sherlockian
“Murder will out, this my conclusion.”
“Murder your darlings.”
“Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.”
“Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.”
“Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.”
“Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.”