Cold Blood Quotes

“(On Baron von Blixen:)

Six feet of amiable Swede and, to my knowledge, the toughest, most durable White Hunter ever to snicker at the fanfare of safari or to shoot a charging buffalo between the eyes while debating whether his sundown drink will be gin or whisky.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat — just to see what ran out of it.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“...and I saw that it is one thing for a crowd, in an almost ecstatic frenzy, mistaking the laws of the devil for those of the Lord, to commit a massacre, but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood, with calculation, in silence.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic. Sentiment is for others.”
― George C. Marshall

“Perchance, one day you wake in a tub
of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let
this whole forest of hurt love you?”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)