Quotes About Murder
A true crime junkie’s favorite topic
Murder is a phenomenon that we have put under a microscope since Cain killed Abel. Why do people do it? Can you predict who will commit these violent acts? What happens in someone’s background that makes them a killer? If you’re a true crime junkie like I am, you have probably asked yourself many of these questions — macabre though they may be. These quotes are an exploration of murder — the most horrific, yet fascinating, crime there is.
1. “Murder will out, certain, it will not fail.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer
2. “For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.”
-William Shakespeare
3. “Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.”
-Clarence Darrow
4. “One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.”
-Beilby Porteus
5. “Once that you’ve decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art.”
-The Police
