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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. I, memb. II, subsec. V)
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You also, O son Brutus.
[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
Author: Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)
Source: said on being stabbed by Brutus according to Suetonius
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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Author: George Chapman
Source: The Widow's Tears (act V, sc. IV)
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Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 15,058), The Nun's Priest's Tale
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Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time,
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Cock and the Fox (l. 285)
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Author: George Henry Lewes
Source: Physiology of Common Life (ch. XII)
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Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Author: Count Ernest F.N. von Munster
Source: writing of the Russian Constitution
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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted
death shall perish by his own plot.
[Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla,
Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (I, 655)
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One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ah! why will kings forget that they are men,
And men that they are brethren?
Author: Bishop Beilby Porteus
Source: Death (l. 154)
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and
you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Author: Bishop Beilby Porteus
Source: Death (l. 154)
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Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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'A took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iii)
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No place indeed should murder sanctuarize;
Revenge should have no bounds.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, vii)
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, i)
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at II, ii)
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Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time,
Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been performed
Too terrible for the ear. 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. This is more strange
Than such a murder is.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings
Hath in the table of his law commanded
That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet
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Killing no murder.
Author: Col. Sillius (Silas) Titus
Source: Harleian Miscellany, title of a tract ascribed to him recommending the murder of Cromwell
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It is one of the incidents of the profession.
[Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.]
Author: Umberto I
Source: said after escaping an assassination
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Cast not the clouded gem away,
Quench not the dim but living ray,--
My brother man, Beware!
With that deep voice which from the skies
Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice.
God's angel, cries, Forbear!
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Human Sacrifice (pt. VII)
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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.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire VII, l. 55)
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: None
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George Tenet's charm
covers his arms
as a velvet sheath
covers a bloodied sword.
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George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency has
had Afghanis die under their interrogation
cannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
Author: Sigmund Freud
Source: None
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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