Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.” — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood” — Constance Savery Copy Share Image
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Hung herself in the closet." "Hanged," said Nate. "Don't be one of those people.” — Peter Clines Copy Share Image
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?” — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Meralda opened her eyes. "I'm for a bath," she said. "Now, and Yvin be hanged." Shingvere crowed. "At last, our battle cry,"… — Frank Tuttle Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“My son is being hanged because he made the wrong friends,” she said, as policewomen escorted her from the courtroom. “It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a… — Maryse Condé 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
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
“It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“With no plan of escape in sight, I've been resigned to the life of a cosseted young lady of London society as… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“I put my office right in the middle of the death they threaten us with. [...] here I sit, every day, hanging… — Robert Jackson Bennett 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
“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
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri 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
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
“Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image