MURDER

Related Subjects: Butcher, Capital Punishment, Crime, Death, Guilt, Hanging, Hatred, Killing, Law, Mystery, Poison, Revenge

1. Lizzie Borden took an axe
   And gave her mother forty whacks;
   When she saw what she had done
   She gave her father forty-one.—Anonymous
   

2. If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he conies to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.—DE QUINCEY, On Murder
   

3. O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
   It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
   A brother's murder.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

4. How easily murder is discovered!—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus
   

5. Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.—JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi