Quotes
Quotes about Murder
Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building!
The time has been,
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.
Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
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.
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame,
With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ez fer war, I call it murder,--
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.
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An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
Murder will out.
We are moved by music in ways that words cannot describe, and such emotion can drive us to action - war, murder, love.
... the great rage which justifies murder and the firing of cities and makes a man rise into his whimpering strong citadel of self-pitying aloneness
The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
