We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
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.
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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.
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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. "