Strangle Quotes
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Oh, if God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I’d go to hell with joy.
emily brontë— Hindley Earnshaw (Ch. XVII).
There is no rope can strangle songAnd not for long death takes his toll.No prison bars can dim the starsNor quicklime eat the living soul.
joyce kilmer— "Easter Week"
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
— On Christmas, The Book of This and That (1915)
The uprising of the five kulak districts should be mercilessly suppressed… Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers... Do it in such a way that for hundreds of versts [km] around, the people will see, tremble, know, shout: they are strangling and will strangle to death the bloodsucker kulaks.
— As quoted in Richard Pipes, The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (1996), page 50
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
anaïs nin— As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.
Bill O'Reilly— The Radio Factor (Fox News Talk), 27 September 2007 of people who criticize him
The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
— Cited in: Kenneth G. Alfers (1993) America's second century: readings in United States history since 1877. p.43
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
— J. C. and A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth.
Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed.
— Iago, scene i
There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!
— Who: August Spies, anarchist Haymarket martyr, prior to his hanging.
