Murder. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Murder


’Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero. Dr. Porteus.—Poem on Death.	1
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. Dr. Young.—Love of Fame, Satire VII. Line 55.	2
Laid schemes for death, to slaughter turn’d his heart, And fitted murder to the rules of Art. Tickell.—On the Prospect of Peace.	3
Murder may pass unpunish’d for a time, But tardy justice will o’ertake the crime. Dryden.—The Cock and Fox.	4
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (After hearing of his Father’s ghost.)	5
For murther, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Chiding himself for his apathy.)	6
Murder will out—that see we day by day. Chaucer.—The Nun’s Priests Tale, Line 15,058.	7
Murther most foul, as in the best it is. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (His Father’s ghost to him.)	8
’Tis of all vices the most contrary To every virtue, and humanity; For they intend the pleasure and delight, But this the dissolution of nature. Shackerly.—Marmion: Antiquary, Act III.	9