"I made my own house be my gallows." — Dante Alighieri

More Gallows Quotes

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• I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He… — Mahatma Gandhi
• If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead… — Thomas Jefferson
• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that… — Charles Dickens
• I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way… — Eberhard Bethge
• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. — Paul Eldridge
• As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War… — Abraham Clark
• Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. — Abraham Clark
• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope… — Mark Twain
• They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison,… — Nellie Bly
• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death,… — R. Kent Hughes
• Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. — Peter Ackroyd
• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them… — Charles Lamb

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