The Hangman Quotes: top 35 famous quotes about The Hangman

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Cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? — Mary Shelley

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman. — Jean Genet

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country. — Arthur Koestler

Does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome? — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

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

Their love was so forbidden that their very touch could wrap a hangman's noose around them. — Victoria Sue

Hope and desire,
All unfulfilled,
Have more than rope
And hangman killed. — Stevie Smith

Every guilty person is his own hangman. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman's noose. — Fennel Hudson

Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck.
512 — Hilary Mantel

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman. — William H Gass

She had an exciting job, several good friends, her cat, her peanut M&Ms, the mystery novels she was forever reading, and - well, me. — Tom Savage

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. — Luther Burbank

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash. — Tim Wu

Christianity is the hangman's metaphysics... — Friedrich Nietzsche

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman's trapdoor. — Fennel Hudson

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

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

Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman's hands are at her throat. — Morrissey

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

Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose. — Nigel Hems

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

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border. — Robert Burns

Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan

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