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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein

If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. — Mahatma Gandhi

I made my own house be my gallows. — Dante Alighieri

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. — Howard Zinn

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

Suddenly he grinned, but his grin was as dark as a scowl; his eyes sparkled merrily, laughing at the foot of the gallows. — Robert Jordan

The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged. — Daniel Kraus

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery. — Samuel Sharpe

Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails! — Ransom Riggs

I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new. — William Butler Yeats

With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows. — Ken Follett

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them! — Kandathil Sebastian

They take to the gallows those who speak the truth — Parinoush Saniee

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. — William A. Drake

It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor. — John Green

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers. — George R R Martin

Julian will go to the gallows for us, and we will smile, and dream of victory
hazy-red, soon to come, a blood-colored dawn. — Lauren Oliver

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. — J.R. Ward

Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows. — Susan Vreeland

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. — Robert Jordan

I look up at the warmth in his face and smile at him. I think he could make me smile even while I was hanging at the gallows. — Jandy Nelson

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal — Lynda Williams

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. — Peter Ackroyd

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. — Richard Brautigan

Any port in a storm. — Michael J. Tougias

The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee. — Walter Raleigh

Life is warped. I'm just in sync. — Margaret Atwood

Revolutionists have a spiritual philosophy of their own, on the strength of which they face gallows and without a wink stare in the eyes of death. — Gopal Godse

This is what makes you a monster I need to put on my people-to-kill list. — Sharon Stevenson

Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel. — Sarah Pinborough

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones. — M. Jones

His kiss was desperate, a night before the gallows kiss. — Kresley Cole

Men die. It's practically what they're for. — Catherynne M Valente

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. — Paul Eldridge

You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped. — Thomm Quackenbush

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. — Cardinal Richelieu

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke

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 — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. — Terry Pratchett

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ... — Mahatma Gandhi

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. — Steve Martin

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after. — Rudyard Kipling

he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation. — James Shapiro

You have five seconds to leave the building. After that you're just asking for it. — Sharon Stevenson

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. — Orson Scott Card

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You are making music
in the shadow of the gallows. — Paul B. Janeczko

We're suicidal, not innumerate. — Jasmine Warga

If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows! — Mehmet Murat Ildan