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Tag Name "Hanged" (72)

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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer he is dead he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory
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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Plautus
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Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Plautus
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A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'
Steve Williams
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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
John Bunyan
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When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
E. B. White
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
George Bernard Shaw
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Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
Joan of Arc
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel de Cervantes
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He who steals a hook shall be hanged while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
Laozi
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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. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.
e. e. cummings
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If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
Demetri Martin
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You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
Charles Spurgeon
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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
Mark Twain
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No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
Hilaire Belloc
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I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .
Frances Hardinge
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
Voltaire
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Leonhard Euler
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I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey it seemed unfair to me, even then.
Margaret Atwood
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When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
e. e. cummings
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