Butcher Quotes
92 quotes by 87 authors
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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
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.
— Alex Comfort
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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
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They are most welcome. We will butcher them.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
— Jay Leno
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Never throw a butcher knife in anger.
— Homer
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.
— Amarillo Slim
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A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
— Carson Daly
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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
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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
— Konrad Adenauer
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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
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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
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The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
— Brigid Brophy
Who Wrote These Butcher Quotes
87 authors contributed a total of 92 Butcher Quotes, led by these top contributors: