Pillory Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
• A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it — George Clymer
• PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty… — Thomas Beddoes
• Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save… — Alice Morse Earle
• Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll

Who Wrote These Pillory Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Pillory Quotes as follows:

• 2 Pillory Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Pillory Quote by Alice Morse Earle
• 1 Pillory Quote by Joseph Hall
• 1 Pillory Quote by George Clymer
• 1 Pillory Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Pillory Quote by Thomas Beddoes