Guillotine Quotes

43 Guillotine quotes by 37 unique authors

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — George Bernard Shaw
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine — Baroness Orczy
I put my head out of my window and see how much the windâ€™s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, Iâ€™ve… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. — Franz Kafka
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury
I canâ€™t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was… — Marie Antoinette
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! — Charles Dickens
If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine. — Bob Dylan
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the… — Charles Dickens
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. — Victor Hugo
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce
I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the… — Roseanne Barr
Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. — Unknown Author
In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine. — Ted Morgan

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