No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.” — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for… — Veruschka von Lehndorff Copy Share Image
“Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Easy: a pig was once publically hanged in France for killing a child. BOOM, there it is. You can put that one… — Dave Johnston Copy Share Image
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. — Laozi Copy Share Image
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Mae Tuck must never go to the gallows. Whatever happened to the man in the yellow suit, Mae Tuck must not be… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would… — John Selden Copy Share Image
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked… — For The State Of Montana Copy Share Image
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Another reason I’m intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“his grandmother walking the lane. He will be frightened, she thought. It may be that he has returned and is frightened. He… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“The Commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled… — Chinua Achebe (Author Copy Share Image
“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Horrified, I smacked my hand over my mouth and stumbled a step back, blinking. I thought I was hallucinating what I was… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended As we… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
