Scaffold Quotes

35 quotes by 32 authors

• The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement. — Joseph James Ettor
• Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is… — Lucy Parsons
• Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… — Virginia Woolf
• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am… — H. L. Mencken
• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
• Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum. — Olympe de Gouges
• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be… — Victor Hugo
• The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. — Pierre Corneille
• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with… — Horace Mann
• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. — Wendell Phillips
• I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I… — David Walker
• When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down,… — Andres Segovia
• I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown
• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can… — Walt Whitman
• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. — James Russell Lowell
• He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
• Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to… — C.S. Lewis
• In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide… — Albert Camus
• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said… — James M. Barrie
• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. — Pierre Corneille

Who Wrote These Scaffold Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 35 Scaffold Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Mother Jones
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Lucy Parsons
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Pierre Corneille
• 1 Scaffold Quote by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
• 1 Scaffold Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Albert Camus
• 1 Scaffold Quote by James M. Barrie
• 1 Scaffold Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Thomas Jordan Jarvis
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Maurice de Vlaminck
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Honore de Balzac
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Marquis de Sade
• 1 Scaffold Quote by E L Konigsburg
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Alexandre Dumas
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Anne Rice
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Alan Lightman
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Mary Harris Jones
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Michael Joseph Barry
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Joseph James Ettor
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Scaffold Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Thomas Adams
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Olympe de Gouges
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Victor Hugo