Hanged Quotes

104 quotes by 90 authors

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk… — Heinrich Heine
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel de Montaigne
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then,… — John Selden
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. — Moliere
I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog. — Anne Bonny
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain… — Abraham Lincoln
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the… — Bertrand Russell
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted… — Henry Adams
Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to… — Amy Ridenour
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and… — Mark Twain
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. — William Shakespeare
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were… — Andrzej Szczypiorski
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning… — Neil Gaiman
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. — Grover Cleveland
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it… — Oliver Cromwell
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its… — Benjamin Disraeli

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