It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.
Eric Stoltz

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous Huxley

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, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.
Tommy Bond

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot

Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
Benjamin Tucker

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
W. H. Auden

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Emmanuel Teney

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.
W. H. Auden

Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
George Henry Lewes

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Donna Leon

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny