Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning! — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“While there are some who extol your virtues, Miss Faber, there are others who wonder why you are not yet hanged.” “I… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
“This revolution - will it be a living?' 'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“His brow was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and his air that of a man who, if he had… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Here in Massachusetts those convicted were hanged without any chance of a fair trial. Their fates sealed by horrible men – witch… — Chelsea Bellingeri Copy Share Image
Height of Addiction: Just b4 a prisoner was ready to be hanged to death the officer asked him about his last wish..!!… — Sadie Copy Share Image
“in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“And then there was one last body that stood out from the rest. It had signs of of bruising on all four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the villagers had left his home to try his luck abroad. After twenty five years, having made a fortune, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Hanged" I hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever, the point is I hanged myself today and I’m still hanging. I feel fine. Just… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image