Gallows Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
— Paul Eldridge
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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
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Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
— Abraham Clark
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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
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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
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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
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Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
— Peter Ackroyd
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I made my own house be my gallows.
— Dante Alighieri
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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
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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
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Gallows Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 44 Gallows Quotes, led by these top contributors: