Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel de Cervantes 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
“I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.” — Truth Devour 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
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
“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?” — Christopher Fry 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
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
They decided that all liars should be whipped. And a man came along and told them the truth. And they hanged him. — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
“Hung herself in the closet." "Hanged," said Nate. "Don't be one of those people.” — Peter Clines 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
“Don't be too sure,' he continued. “The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The sentence was death. His appeal was rejected. At 7:18 A.M on April 9, 1959, József Tibor Fejes was hanged. He was… — C.J. Chivers 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
And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou… — William Shakespeare 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
“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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image