Gehängt / Hanged Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Gehängt / Hanged:

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. Claude M. Bristol

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Iain McGilchrist

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Demetri Martin

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

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Rudyard Kipling

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Claude M. Bristol

Confess and be hanged.

Christopher Marlowe

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Grover Cleveland

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richard Dawkins

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

Lady Gregory