“Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn’t say it in French.… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I feel really, really comfortable with chokes, with my guillotine, especially. — Brandon Moreno Copy Share Image
“The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")” — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. — Dustin Penner Copy Share Image
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“At first they’d thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade...… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“When England introduced drop hanging in 1783 and France introduced the guillotine in 1792, it was a moral advance, because an execution… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“I detected sarcoma." He put his finger on his neck. "Right here." The other man nodded--his head seemed to be nodding continually--and… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen You can hear the sound of limitations exploding Please sir, may… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his… — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Louis XVI--Louis Capet--was led to the guillotine in the Place de la Revolution by Santerre, the brewer. Louis stepped firmly and resolutely… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
I've been watching things like 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' since I was 5. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
