Banishment Quotes

• Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kings
  • Lear
  • Sith

• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • I Believe
  • Confess

• And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Self
  • Torment
  • Banishment

• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Church
  • Banishment
  • Deseret News

• In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Leader
  • Guillotine
  • Banishment

• Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Questioning
  • Ridicule
  • Butcher

• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Goodbye
  • Absence