hang quotes

I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

-John Ehrlichman
  Of Patrick Gray, regarding his nomination as Director of the FBI. Taped conversation with  John Dean, reported in the Washington Post, 27  Jul.

We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

- Anne Frank
  On signing the Declaration of Independence, 4  Jul.

Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me.

-William Jerome
  Title of song.

Then hath thy orchard fruit, thy garden flowers, Fresh as the air, and new as are the hours. The early cherry, with the later plum, Fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come: The blushing apricot, and woolly peach Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.

- Ben Jonson
  The Forest,'To Penshurst'.

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.142^51. rathe = early.

I will sing no more songs: the pride of my country I sang Through forty long years of good rhyme, without any avail; And no one cared even as much as the half of a hang For the song or the singer, so here is an end of the tale.

- Da i bh|  dh OŁ    Bruadair
Adapted from the Irish by James Stephens. Irish   playwright.   His   early   plays,   including   Juno   and   the Paycock  (1924),  deal  with  Dublin  working-class  life  and  were written  for  the Abbey  Theatre.  His  later,  more  experimental, plays include Cockadoodle Dandy (1949).