Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Confess and be hanged.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
