Gallows Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . .… — Mahatma Gandhi
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should… — Thomas Jefferson
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What… — Charles Dickens
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so… — Eberhard Bethge
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. — Paul Eldridge
As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our… — Abraham Clark
Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. — Abraham Clark
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would… — Nellie Bly
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only… — R. Kent Hughes
Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. — Peter Ackroyd
I made my own house be my gallows. — Dante Alighieri
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. — Cardinal Richelieu
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end… — Christian Nestell Bovee
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the… — James Wolcott

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