French revolution Quote by Robin Benway

“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

“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

“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

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

— Melissa Lynne Blue

“Not one of the European rulers would put himself about in the attempt to save Marie Antoinette, so that Mercy scornfully declared: “They would…

— Stefan Zweig

“The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to…

— Niall Ferguson

“He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them…

— Emmuska Orczy

“I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting…

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

“Dariya and I used to play French Revolution when we were little. We'd take turns being Marie Antoinette. Our grandmamma caught us once and…

— Robin Bridges

“The French do some things better, like spanking for instance.”

— Chloe Thurlow

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

— Ambrose Bierce