Hangman Quotes

Hangman Quote of the day

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.

Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?