A murderer was a worthy companion.

...Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

They say all the world loves a lover — apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He´ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

So you’ve decided to commit a murder.
Congratulations. Simply by purchasing this volume, you’ve already taken the all-important first step toward a successful homicide of which you can be proud, one that would gain you the admiration of your peers, were they ever to learn of it.
This book will see to it that they don’t.

What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.

People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung” goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima