Quotes about Execution

At Buckingham, Thomas Bainard, and James Moreton, the one for reading the Lord's prayer in English, and the other for reading St. James' epistles in English, were both condemned and burnt alive.

For he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate replied, that as he had long taught others to save their souls, he should only think now of his own salvation. The worthy prelate heard his fiery sentence without emotion, walked cheerfully to the place of execution, and underwent his martyrdom with great fortitude.

At the place of execution he kissed the chains that were to bind him to the stake.

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Britain continued to use the terms and the symbols of its religion and would never make a vulgar Gallic show of executing clerics, but it would reject real religion nonetheless.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.