Quotes with hanged

  • I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • William Shakespeare I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Noam Chomsky If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Johnson When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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