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Results of search for Quote or Author: Murder - Page 1 of 4
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
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Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Results from Classic Quotes:

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
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Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
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Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
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