Top 100 Quotes About Hanged
#1. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Leonhard Euler
#2. 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.
#3. It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
Henry James
#4. 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
#5. If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky
#6. [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
#7. I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.
Isaac Parker
#8. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
Moliere
#9. Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
Joan Of Arc
#10. Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Lawrence Durrell
#11. 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
#13. I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood
Constance Savery
#14. When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.
E. E. Cummings
#15. Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Voltaire
#16. If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.
Deanna Raybourn
#17. 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
#18. Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.
Stefan Bachmann
#19. When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
E.B. White
#20. 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
#21. It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
Vladimir Putin
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ...
C.S. Friedman
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
Joan Of Arc
#30. She was the first woman to be hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester,
Sylvia Perrini
#32. I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ...
Frances Hardinge
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
Mark Twain
#36. He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.
Anatoly Chubais
#38. I'm called the Saint," he murmured. "But don't let us get melodramatic about it, son. The last man who got melodramatic with me was hanged at Exeter six months back. It don't seem to be healthy!
Leslie Charteris
#39. The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged.
Daniel Kraus
#40. A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.
Neal Bascomb
#41. A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'
Steve Williams
#42. he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.
James Shapiro
#43. Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.
Susan Vreeland
#44. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
W.B.Yeats
#45. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
#46. We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
#47. John Stuart Mill, "nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another, are nature's every day performances."104
John Zande
#48. I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.
Truth Devour
#49. A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
Glen Cook
#50. Here you had the top professional soldier in Japan, and to think he didn't know how to kill himself with a gun! They took him straight to the hospital, he got the best care the American medical team could give him, recovered, then was tried and hanged. It's a terrible way to die.
Haruki Murakami
#51. No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland
#52. And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.
William Shakespeare
#53. Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged.
Ambrose Bierce
#54. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Plautus
#55. But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
Epictetus
#56. We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
Agatha Christie
#57. There is only one penalty for high treason: for a man, to be hanged, cut down alive and eviscerated, or for a woman, to be burned. The king may vary the sentence to decapitation; only poisoners are boiled alive.
Hilary Mantel
#58. Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
George Herbert
#59. A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
George Bernard Shaw
#60. It was as if he had just seen a door open to another place, somewhere worlds away where hanged men blew in the wind at every crossroads, where witches shrieked overhead in the night.
Neil Gaiman
#61. In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17
Sylviane A. Diouf
#62. Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.
Ravi Howard
#63. Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.
H.P. Lovecraft
#64. We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy equilibrium by which, out of suns roaring like infernos and heavens toppling like precipices, He has hanged the world upon nothing.
G.K. Chesterton
#66. The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!
James Shapiro
#68. Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged
the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Plautus
#69. THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
Oliver Cromwell
#70. To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
John Dryden
#72. Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile
#73. Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan Of Arc
#76. He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.
William Shakespeare
#77. There are some midshipmen who will never have the decency to lie down and die, whatever the circumstances. Because they are born to be hanged, no doubt,' added the lieutenant darkly.
Patrick O'Brian
#78. It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and took the vow to stop hating.
Ruth Ozeki
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.
John Grisham
#82. This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.
Edward Augustus Freeman
#83. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#84. Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
Harry Truman
#85. Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
Thomas Carlyle
#86. And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged ...
Andrzej Szczypiorski
#87. If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
Demetri Martin
#88. How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Studs Terkel
#89. 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!
Rudyard Kipling
#90. I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please
Franny Billingsley
#91. I'm an economical soul, and if I'm going to be hanged I want a good stake for my neck.
John Buchan
#92. The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
Voltaire
#93. A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one - it's too much!
Witold Gombrowicz
#94. 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.
Iain McGilchrist
#96. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged." ~ Aldous Huxley
J.J. McAvoy
#97. Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Richard Bach
#98. Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
#99. It nods and curtseys and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.
The nettle nods, the wind blows over,
The man, he does not move,
The lover of the grave, the lover
That hanged himself for love.
A.E. Housman
#100. I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.
Jerome K. Jerome
