The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The movie [ The Innkeepers] is in no way a comedy, but I would put some of the funny scenes up against… — Ti West Copy Share Image
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable… — Eberhard Bethge Copy Share Image
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.” — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
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