I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing…

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm…

— Charles Bukowski

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

— Paul O'Grady

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to…

— Jean de La Fontaine

I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you…

— Chic Murray

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told…

— John Aubrey

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are…

— Ridley Pearson

My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever…

— Marc Jacobs

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

— John Selden

Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast…

— Charles Dickens

Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the…

— Jerry Adler

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

— Blake Morrison

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

— Alex Comfort

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

— Winston Churchill

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

— Frank Carson