A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Hanged House Should Talk

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

George Herbert

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes

'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

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Shirley Jackson

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

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Heinrich Heine

You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

Lucy Stone

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Voltaire

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.