Famous quotes containing the word killed:
“Alas! Good Lord, he said. I have killed my former master, my friend, and my brother-in-law; I am the kindest man in the world, and here are three men I have already killed; and two of the three are priests.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Its whether will ye be a rank robbers wife,
Or will ye die by my wee pen knife?
Its Ill not be a rank robbers wife,
But Ill rather die by your wee pen knife.
He s killed this may and he s laid her by,
For to bear the red rose company.”
—Unknown. Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie (l. 914)