Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or murder:
“A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.”
—Beilby Porteus (1731–1808)