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Confess and be hanged. -- Christopher Marlowe
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. -- Grover Cleveland
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. -- Leonhard Euler
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. -- George Savile
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. -- Demetri Martin
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. -- Leonardo da Vinci
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. -- Oliver Cromwell
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. -- Claude M. Bristol
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. -- Richard Dawkins
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. -- Aldous Huxley
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor. -- Veruschka von Lehndorff
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. -- Iain McGilchrist
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. -- Voltaire
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 man could in that condition. -- Samuel Pepys
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' mine, O mother o' mine! -- Rudyard Kipling
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
Only poor men get hanged. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth. -- Joan of Arc
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged. -- Voltaire
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. -- Moliere
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. -- Mark Twain
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged -- Heinrich Heine
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. -- Heinrich Heine
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. -- Vladimir Putin
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. -- George Herbert
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it. -- Isaac Parker
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. -- Miguel de Cervantes
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. -- Margaret Atwood
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. -- George Savile
I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please -- Franny Billingsley
When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man -- e. e. cummings
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth. -- Joan of Arc
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. -- Oliver Cromwell
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. -- Mark Twain
There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully. -- Timothy Spall
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. -- John Dryden
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. -- Agatha Christie
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. -- H. L. Mencken
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. -- Naomi Novik
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. -- Voltaire
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. -- Lawrence Durrell
I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . . -- Frances Hardinge
Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes. -- Robert the Bruce
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. -- Laozi
This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. -- Edward Augustus Freeman
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning! -- Samuel Johnson
Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals. -- George W. Bush
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. -- E. B. White
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. -- Anthony Jeselnik
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. -- George Bernard Shaw
They decided that all liars should be whipped. And a man came along and told them the truth. And they hanged him. -- Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? -- Richard Bach
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun. -- Andrew Jackson
I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog. -- Anne Bonny
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. -- Michel de Montaigne
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. -- William Shakespeare
But to be hanged is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself. -- Epictetus
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
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
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
We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied. -- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning. -- Robin Hobb
40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered. -- Anatoly Chubais
Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck. -- George W Truett
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
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged. -- Aristotle
In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia. -- Werner Herzog
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 for the eight-hour day for you. -- Studs Terkel
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war. -- Fanny Kemble
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 the house where somebody has been hanged. -- Harry S. Truman
If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half. -- H. L. Mencken
Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning. -- Jamie Bell
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
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange -- Neil Gaiman
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, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. -- John Gardner
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. -- Thomas Carlyle
Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name. -- Ravi Howard
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows." -- Elie Wiesel
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to. -- John Selden
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. -- Jacob Epstein

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