Computers Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in…

— Baroness Orczy

“Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn’t say it in French. What is…

— Stephanie Perkins

“Poor young man! he was one of the four subaltern officers of La Rochelle. How horrible is the idea of their (fancied) political necessity,…

— Victor Hugo

“If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.”

— Robin Benway

“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain…

— Victor Hugo

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one…

— Camille Desmoulins

“Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world—the figure…

— Charles Dickens

“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain…

— Victor Hugo

“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.”

— Melissa Lynne Blue

“I tell the annoying classmates to shove it, and Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it,but because…

— Stephanie Perkins

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment.…

— Leon Trotsky

“When the king’s head fell beneath the guillotine, an unknown man is reported to have leaped onto the scaffold. He dipped his hand in…

— Michael Baigent