You are making music in the shadow of the gallows.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

— Anonymous

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“I had seen that errible look on a man's face before, on the faces of those being dragged to the gallows. Some scream and…

— Karen Maitland

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

— Abraham Clark

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You…

— Bruce Campbell

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

“He who is destined for the gallows will not drown,”

— Jo Nesbø

Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils…

— Andrew Jackson

“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…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is…

— Franny Billingsley

When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free…

— Anthony Mary Claret

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

— J.R. Ward

And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy…

— Dominicus Corea