Killing Quotes

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Thelma Ritter

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

American Proverb

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Orson Scott Card

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god

Jean Rostand

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all

Japanese Proverb

Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.

John W. Hinckley, Jr.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Emil Cioran

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.

Maltese Proverb

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Edward Abbey

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Robert Graves

There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.

Mark David Chapman