Top 140 Hanged Quotes & Sayings

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

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

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

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Confess and be hanged.

THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

They decided that all liars should be whipped. And a man came along and told them the truth. And they hanged him.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

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.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

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

Only poor men get hanged.

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

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

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.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

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.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

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.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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.

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

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.