Top 94 Quotes About Gallows
#1. As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
Abraham Clark
#2. Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
Paulo Coelho
#4. If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Paul Eldridge
#7. If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.
Bhagat Singh
#9. A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman - Spell It Or He'll Swing!
J.K. Rowling
#10. One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
Daniel J. Goor
#11. A man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
Jose Saramago
#12. Will you go back?" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America?"
"Nothing to go back for," said Shadow, and as he said it he knew it was a lie.
"Things wait for you there," said the old man. "But they will wait until you return.
Neil Gaiman
#13. I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor.
John Green
#14. A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
James Wolcott
#15. Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.
J.R. Ward
#16. His gods were already waiting for him when he arrived; Tyr, one-handed, and gray Odin gallows-god, and Thor of the thunders.
They were here.
They were waiting.
Neil Gaiman
#17. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#19. He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.
Chris Cleave
#20. At the city gates a corpse or two hung, moldering, from the municipal gallows. Within the walls, there were the usual dirty streets, the customary gamut of smells, from wood smoke to excrement, from geese to incense, from baking bread to horses, swine and unwashed humanity. Peasants,
Aldous Huxley
#21. I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new.
William Butler Yeats
#22. Some hate us, think us outlaws to hang at the gallows.
Some fear us, think demons to burn at the stake,
Some worship us, think us children of the gods.
But all know us.
Marie Lu
#23. I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#26. I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
William A. Drake
#27. To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#28. Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped.
He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety.
Julia Quinn
#29. But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
Terry Pratchett
#30. A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."
Elie Wiesel
#31. Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
Orson Scott Card
#32. A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#33. Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.
Howard Zinn
#34. Clergymen, judges, statesmen
the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day
stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#35. With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.
Ken Follett
#38. You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped.
Thomm Quackenbush
#39. The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!
Kandathil Sebastian
#40. One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after.
Rudyard Kipling
#41. The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged.
Daniel Kraus
#42. Dorothea is a Grey," he pointed out. "Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.
Diana Gabaldon
#43. Sloane only hesitated for a second before wheeling it over to park next to Henry, propping Jeff's head on the pale woman's shoulder. "There - you're finally sleeping together," she said, a gallows grin on her face.
Seanan McGuire
#44. Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!
Ransom Riggs
#45. If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Richard Brautigan
#46. The funnel of my family's salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman's toes
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#47. Julian will go to the gallows for us, and we will smile, and dream of victory
hazy-red, soon to come, a blood-colored dawn.
Lauren Oliver
#48. Suddenly he grinned, but his grin was as dark as a scowl; his eyes sparkled merrily, laughing at the foot of the gallows.
Robert Jordan
#49. If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
Robert Jordan
#50. I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.
Samuel Sharpe
#51. Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace
Michel Faber
#52. His kiss was desperate, a night before the gallows kiss.
Kresley Cole
#53. New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.
Tom Piazza
#54. The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
Arthur Koestler
#55. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Edmund Burke
#56. Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
Cardinal Richelieu
#57. he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.
James Shapiro
#58. It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#59. What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
Charles Dickens
#61. I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.
Amanda Peet
#62. The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.
Walter Raleigh
#63. It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling for the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilization
Jo Nesbo
#64. However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.
J.G. Ballard
#65. I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#66. They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
#67. And when you hang from the gallows. When the door beneath you opens, when your feet do the Devil's Dance, then you will realize in that moment that this has all been for nothing, because there will be no one left to pull your feet.
Pierce Brown
#68. Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
Peter Ackroyd
#69. Steal not this book, my worthy friend,
For fear the gallows will be your end;
Up the ladder, and down the rope,
There you'll hang until you choke;
Then I'll come along and say -
'Where's that book you stole away?
Jen Campbell
#70. Revolutionists have a spiritual philosophy of their own, on the strength of which they face gallows and without a wink stare in the eyes of death.
Gopal Godse
#71. Me mum always told me the rich was blessed, but I thought she was talkin' about gold." She leaned over to cackle in his ear, then actually patted him on the head as if he was some slavering lapdog. "You might have escaped the gallows, lad, but you was already well hung.
Teresa Medeiros
#72. Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.
Susan Vreeland
#73. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'
That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
Benjamin Disraeli
#74. I look up at the warmth in his face and smile at him. I think he could make me smile even while I was hanging at the gallows.
Jandy Nelson
#76. Fell?' he asked. 'Or was pushed?'
Anton shrugged again. 'It hardly makes a difference,' he said, 'when you are the man at the bottom of the stairs.
Michael Montoure
#77. Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel.
Sarah Pinborough
#78. Often eating took considerable extra time, since he could hardly see his food, groping with a fork or spoon, enforcedly omnivorous. "Blind men wear spotted pants," Dorothy teased, telling him to wash his...
Edward Hoagland
#79. You have five seconds to leave the building. After that you're just asking for it.
Sharon Stevenson
#80. I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.
Norman Lock
#81. The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Suzanne Collins
#83. This is what makes you a monster I need to put on my people-to-kill list.
Sharon Stevenson
#84. I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal
Lynda Williams
#85. We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
Terry Pratchett
#86. The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.
Sigmund Freud
#87. Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
Elizabeth Wein
#88. Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.
M. Jones
#89. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
#90. Of course she was bloody found dead." Moore grumbled. "Some bastard cut off her head and her limbs. If she'd been found alive I would have been more than bloody surprised.
Sarah Pinborough
#94. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.
Doug Stanhope
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