Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or murder:
“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)