Hanged

Famous quotes containing the word hanged:

“You see that? They hanged me once, Frankenstein. They broke my neck. They said I was dead. Then they cut me down.... So, Ygor is dead.”
—Willis Cooper. Rowland V. Lee. Ygor (Bela Lugosi)

““Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence,” I remarked.
“So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)