Quotes with murderer

  • 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.
  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
  • The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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  • Saki 'The man is a common murderer'.
    'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Andrea Dworkin A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Graham Greene A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Albert Camus After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Boris Pasternak Am I a gangster or a murderer?
    Of what crime do I stand
    Condemned? I made the whole world weep
    At the beauty of my land.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Agatha Christie Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Maya Angelou I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Miller One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Robert Browning Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • A. D. Hope Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Brian De Palma Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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