Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous form of things:
We murder to dissect. [ Wordsworth ]
Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time.
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. [ Dryden ]
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. [ William Shakespeare ]
Murder itself is past all expiation,
The greatest crime that nature doth abhor. [ Goffe ]
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. [ Young ]
No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. [ William Shakespeare ]
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. [ Burton ]
Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. [ William Shakespeare ]
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. [ Chapman ]
Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep. [ William Shakespeare ]
Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. [ Webster ]
Is there a crime
Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul
Of man, with more infernal hue, than damn'd
Assassination? [ Cibber ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. [ George Henry Lewes ]
There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. [ George Eliot ]
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. [ Maturin ]
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. [ Danish Webster ]
Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]
Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]
Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]
Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime.
A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]