Quotes About Scaffold

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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

No noose is good noose'—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.

a man on a scaffold throwing a tree at another man on another scaffold.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne—Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

so many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son.

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo CHAPTER FIVE 'What seeks the Witcher on my territory?

Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice.

Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count; on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

My dear," said the elder Duke, "I do not think that in my time any innocent man has ever lost his life upon the scaffold." "Is that a reason why our friend should be the first instance?" said the Duchess.

all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery.

As he left for the scaffold, ... He refused to get into the tumbril. "Innocent people should go on foot!" he said....When the moment came to lie down on the plank, he said to the headsman, as he asked him to turn down his collar which came up to his neck, "My coat belongs to you, try and not cut it.

many infatuated criminals, instead of devoting their last hours to the welfare of their souls, as they ought to have done, neglect this duty for the purpose of preparing and committing to memory a speech to be made from the scaffold.

It is a great vice for any constitution to leave to powerful men no alternative between their own power and the scaffold.