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Quotes About Hanged

Nathuram's reply was: 'Please, see to it that mercy is not imposed on me. I want to show that through me, Gandhiji's non-violence is being hanged.' Taken aback by this reply, Ambedkar, who had never thought highly of Gandhiji's eccentric ideas, actually praised Godse.
~ Koenraad Elst
We're vampires," he said. "Not fairies." "Sometimes I'm not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?" "He's nearly blind." "Which explains why he hasn't hanged himself in that pastel train wreck." "I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?" "I free-associate.
~ J.R. Ward
Cugel is a man of discernment! declared Bunderwal. I would rate him an applicant of fair to good quality, and I urge you to ignore his long spatulate fingers which I last noticed on Larkin the baby-stealer. There is a significant difference between the two: Larkin has been hanged and Cugel has not been hanged.
~ Jack Vance
He gives up the ghost. A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm spouting through his death clothes on to the cobblestones. Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervy Talboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.)
~ James Joyce
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.
~ James Shapiro
Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another
~ William L. Shirer
Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?
~ Christopher Fry
and in the din Stephen cried, 'I insist upon a boat – I protest… Jack took him by the elbow and propelled him with affectionate violence into the cabin. 'My dear sir,' he said, 'I am afraid you must not insist, or protest: it is mutiny, you know, and you would be obliged to be hanged.
~ Patrick O'Brian
What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must hang them? Lady Macduff Why, the honest men. Son: Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hang up them.
~ William Shakespeare
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
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
This revolution - will it be a living?' 'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged tomorrow.' 'Is that usual?' 'Oh, they always hang my clients. Even in property and matrimonial cases.
~ Hilary Mantel
I'm getting really paranoid,' I said. 'I keep thinking, any moment, I'm going to get done for something that I didn't even know was illegal. I'm scared that if I fart too loudly I might get hanged for polluting the environment.
~ Unknown
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
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than rewarded for betrayal
~ Vladimir Putin
I want with my vote to support Henderson in the same way as the rope supports a hanged man.
~ Unknown
Par," said Wilfred Wimp, "what's a alleybi? A marble?" "No, my lad," said Grodman, "it means being somewhere else when you're supposed to be somewhere." "Ah, playing truant," said Wilfred self-consciously; his schoolmaster had often proved an alibi against him. "Then Denzil will be hanged.
~ Israel Zangwill
My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless.  If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well. 
~ John Bunyan
Ah, yes, it's the Soubeyrans...Three mad, three hanged, and me all alone with a no-good leg....And nobody after me...Nobody, nobody, nobody...
~ Marcel Pagnol
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 very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
~ Oliver Cromwell