Butcher Quotes

92 quotes by 87 authors

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by… — Lord Byron
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran
Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher. — Alex Comfort
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
They are most welcome. We will butcher them. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for… — Clint Eastwood
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Never throw a butcher knife in anger. — Homer
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered… — Isabella Rossellini
Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher. — Amarillo Slim
A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink. — Carson Daly
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not… — Larry McMurtry
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. — Konrad Adenauer
I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it… — Natalie
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the… — Polly Adler
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. — Brigid Brophy

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