Strangle Quotes

#1. When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Peter Mayle

#2. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.

Lindsey Graham

#4. Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I'd like to say I took the news well.
The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.
Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#6. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Antonin Artaud

#8. A broken shoelace can strangle me.

Brian Spellman

#9. The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

Andrey Illarionov

#10. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

Kelly Link

#11. If I do catch sight of my heart, I'm going to strangle the thing just to put it out of its misery.

P.B. Kerr

#12. Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn't simultaneously wanted to strangle her.

Marissa Meyer

#13. There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

George Santayana

#14. It makes me want to kiss her and strangle her at the same time. I've never been into S&M. But I'm beginning to see its benefits.

Emma Chase

#15. A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

Jenny Lawson

#16. For about ten minutes the vengeful crew proceed to maim, strangle, poison, burn, stomp, blind and otherwise have at Pasquale, while he describes intimately his varied sensations for our enjoyment.

Thomas Pynchon

#17. I love you like a brother, Stryder, but I swear there are times when I could strangle the very life out of you. (Zenobia)
'Tis a good thing you care for me then. Given my treatment, I shudder at what you would do to me should you decide to hate me. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#18. Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. took the slip from his hand and looked at the strangle symbols.

Donna Augustine

#20. Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Rod Stewart

#21. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that to hate is to kill for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love.

Michael Grant

#22. I feel something like hands around my throat, threatening to squeeze the life from me. Each word tightens the grip, as if ink alone can strangle me. For a second, I fear I might not breathe again.

Victoria Aveyard

#23. The sight of her showing so much fake patriotism for the Commonwealth made him want to tear off that sash and strangle her with it.

Marissa Meyer

#24. His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Denis Diderot

#25. Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#26. But don't pull me down or strangle me, he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang

#28. A relieved grin filled up Thorne's face. "We're having another moment, aren't we?"
"If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.

Marissa Meyer

#29. Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#30. The failure to strangle Bolshevism at its birth and to bring Russia, then prostrate, by one means or another, into the general democratic system lies heavy upon us today.

Winston S. Churchill

#31. People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.

Garrison Keillor

#32. Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Neal Stephenson

#33. My lord," came Daisy's anxious voice, delaying him briefly. "You will find her, won't you?" "Yes," he said without hesitation. "And then I'm going to strangle her.

Lisa Kleypas

#34. World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion.

Henrik Ibsen

#35. Cam touched your hair and your face and I wanted to strangle him. You were his, but you felt like mine. Even then, you felt like mine.

Kennedy Ryan

#36. It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

Lea Thompson

#37. Eating is self punishment; punish the food instead. Strangle a loaf of Italian bread. Throw darts at a cheesecake. Chain a lamb chop to the bed. Beat up a cookie.

Denise Dietz

#38. There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#39. You'd better get lost before my bones come back, Dobby, or I might strangle you." Dobby smiled weakly. "Dobby is used to death threats, sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home.

J.K. Rowling

#40. I don't like him," I explained. "He annoys the hell out of me ninety-six percent of the time, and sometimes I'd like nothing better than to strangle him to death. But at the same time I ... I want him to be happy. I think about him way more than I should, and I -"
"You love him.

Kody Keplinger

#41. We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

Wayne Rogers

#42. The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

Brit Hume

#43. If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

Alan Lightman

#44. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

George Bernard Shaw

#45. People, who suffer from sadness and suddenly become happy, betray themselves: they stick to happiness, as if to hug, and strangle it out of jealousy.

Albert Camus

#46. How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.

Catherynne M Valente

#47. She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.

Josephine Angelini

#48. If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

Mercedes Lackey

#49. You shouldn't give him a ride, Grace!" Meme snapped. "He's likely to strangle you and dump your body in the lake."
"Is this true?" I asked Callahan.
"I was thinking about it," he admitted.

Kristan Higgins

#50. The next person who attempts to shoot, stab, strangle, maim, maul, or manipulate me in any way, shape, or form is going to have one fuck of a hissy fit to deal with!" he shouted angrily and actually stomped his foot in the process. "That goes for you too!" he shouted at Gray as an afterthought.

Abigail Roux

#51. You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

Bill O'Reilly

#52. I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

Richard Branson

#53. We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.

Lauren Miller

#54. Well," Cinder finally grumbled. "I guess that was pretty fast thinking."
A relieved grin filled up Thorne's face. "We're having another moment, aren't we?"
"If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, than I guess we are.

Marissa Meyer

#55. [T]he human equipment includes, for instance, a capacity for personal affection and a willingness to strangle selfish and predatory impulse with the rope of social decency.

Rex Stout

#56. Shut up. If you don't shut up, if you don't cease resisting immediately, I will pull your tongue out of your mouth, drag it around your neck, and strangle you with it.

J.D. Robb

#57. Cuddles screamed. It wasn't a braying noise, it was an ear-slapping shriek of pure donkey outrage, like someone got hold of a foghorn and tried to strangle it.

Ilona Andrews

#58. The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.

August Spies

#59. Gabe prayed for the strength not to strangle his future father-in-law for the fiftieth time.

Melanie Dickerson

#60. I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

Vincenzo Nibali

#61. I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach out and just strangle him or send a few F-bombs his way, I just bit my tongue, told him he offended me and walked away.

Jim Furyk

#62. The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca The Younger

#63. By overloading the body with food you strangle the soul and render it less active.

Seneca.

#64. I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Henry Rollins

#65. Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

Edward John Trelawny

#66. She'd learned that to cling too tightly was to strangle.

Erika Swyler

#67. If we were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

Kerstin Gier

#68. I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Ann Romney

#69. I swear to God, if I get shot again, Indigo will strangle me.

Nalini Singh

#70. Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.

Jim Butcher

#71. Your spirit does not shine when the sun shines and your life is comfortable. It shines when darkness swallows you and you cannot breathe for the strangle of fear. That's when what was invisible becomes undeniable.

Toni Sorenson

#72. There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Colleen McCullough

#74. Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she's a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn't been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she's not some baby needing to be coddled.

Laura Kreitzer

#75. She turns and stalks off in search of other minions to intimidate, leaving you flexing your fingers and trying to decide whether you want to strangle her or go down on your knees and beg for lessons.

Charles Stross

#76. Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

Jedediah Berry

#77. I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Jean Racine

#78. Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli

Tess Gerritsen

#79. Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.

William Shakespeare

#80. Drop or strangle; oh, the choices this business forced him to make.

Abigail Roux

#81. They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other.

Gregory Maguire

#82. Clever girl, Lucas thought. I could strangle her right about now. [for Helen]

Josephine Angelini

#83. Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

Lauren Oliver

#84. Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.

Saul Bellow

#85. I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

Megan Fox

#86. You know, this is the first time in many years that I really wished I hadn't
given up smoking. It would give me something to do with my hands, so
that I wouldn't use them to strangle you.

Gary Goldstick

#87. Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

William Blake

#88. i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.

Peter Standish Evans

#89. It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others; the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love.

Bryant McGill

#90. The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

Quentin Tarantino

#91. Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.

Stephen Richards

#92. True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.

Crystal Woods

#93. When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one.

Marc Rainer

#94. I disliked having a fork pointed at me and I disliked the sound of the voice never stopping; I wished he would put food on the fork and put it into his mouth and strangle himself.

Shirley Jackson

#95. My seven a.m. teacher was from France. And he spoke Frenglish. Sometimes it was funny, but when he announced which chapters we should study and the names came out in English, but the chapter numbers came out in French, I wanted to strangle the sacre bleu out of him.

Lila Felix

#96. Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

Loretta Chase

#97. It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

#98. I'm not a well person." He put both palms on his chest as though it were his prime defense. "I tried to strangle you, and who knows when I'll try again. I want to strangle you now." "Don't

Lucian Bane

#99. It is funny what memories can do to you. How they can grip you by the throat, choke you, strangle you. And just when you thought you had it all sorted, too.

Preeti Shenoy

#100. There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?"
I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.

Louise Rennison