Attempted Murder Quotes

“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“But she’s a nice lass.”

“Addolgar, she poisoned you.”

“But she didn’t kill me. That’s what’s important.”
― G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons

“Someone tried to kill me. Again. Poison. Again. Someone else tried to recruit me into a scheme where we would kill my sister and Cardan, so I could rule in their place. When I told them no, they tried to kill me. With a knife, that time.'

'A poisoned knife?'

He laughed. 'No, just a regular one. But it hurt.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“I tried to kill you,' she reminds me.

'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.”
― Nick Yapp, The Xenophobe's Guide to the French

“First we need to get out of this accursed forest before someone else tries to kill you.'

'About that,' she said, 'someone else did try to kill me earlier, before I entered this place.'

Jacks gave her a baleful look. 'How is it that every day someone tries to kill you?'

'I wish I knew. Maybe then I could stop it from happening.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love