The Invention of Murder Quotes

“Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.”
― Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.”
― Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime