Best Hanged Sayings

104 Hanged quotes by 87 unique authors

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. — Nikita Khrushchev
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o'… — Rudyard Kipling
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. — Demetri Martin
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any… — Samuel Pepys
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. — Leonardo da Vinci
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that… — William Butler Yeats
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? — Richard Bach
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
Only poor men get hanged. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in… — Harry S. Truman
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. — Margaret Atwood
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged — Heinrich Heine
The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small… — Libba Bray
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The… — Kurt Vonnegut
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon.… — E E Cummings
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie
After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—” “Yes,” Catherine said. “What do you make of it?” “I haven’t… — Lisa Kleypas
Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe… — P.G. Wodehouse
Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a… — Shirley Jackson
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that,… — Terry Pratchett
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting… — Studs Terkel

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