Convicted Murder

Famous quotes containing the words convicted and/or murder:

    “Should the conflagration climb,
    Run till all the sages know.
    We the great gazebo built,
    They convicted us of guilt;
    Bid me strike a match and blow.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)