Hanged Up Quotes

#1. My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless. If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well.

John Bunyan

#2. You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. 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.

Samuel Pepys

#4. Of the four poets with whom Bascomb was customarily grouped one had shot himself, one had drowned himself, one had hanged himself, and the fourth had died of delirium tremens.

John Cheever

#5. Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Hilaire Belloc

#6. People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Neil Gaiman

#7. Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ...

C.S. Friedman

#8. I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

Anthony Jeselnik

#9. Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

Jamie Bell

#10. People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

John Gardner

#11. Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Joan Of Arc

#12. She was the first woman to be hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester,

Sylvia Perrini

#13. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#14. I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ...

Frances Hardinge

#15. I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

William Shakespeare

#16. Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.

Roberto Bolano

#17. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#18. He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. When I got outside, I came to a standstill and said loudly in the open street, as I clenched my hands: "I will tell you one thing, my good Lord God, you are a bungler!" and I nod furiously, with set teeth, up to the clouds; "I will be hanged if you are not a bungler.

Knut Hamsun

#20. Don't be too sure,' he continued. The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.

Joseph Conrad

#21. Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened.

Donna Tartt

#22. He was hanged, and then much later they put up a statue to him, which tells you more about people than you might wish to know.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Lawrence Durrell

#24. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

#25. Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#26. It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.

Henry James

#27. This revolution - will it be a living?'
'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged tomorrow.'
'Is that usual?'
'Oh, they always hang my clients. Even in property and matrimonial cases.

Hilary Mantel

#28. If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky

#29. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Fanny Kemble

#30. I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Isaac Parker

#31. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Moliere

#32. Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

Joan Of Arc

#33. It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

Vladimir Putin

#34. I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

John Bunyan

#35. of the hanged men were cut down, and the starosta

Vasiliy Bryukhov

#36. I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

Constance Savery

#37. When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.

E. E. Cummings

#38. Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Voltaire

#39. If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.

Deanna Raybourn

#40. Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#41. When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

E.B. White

#42. 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.

Aldous Huxley