French revolution Quote by Robin Benway

“Again, take someone who’s crippled or deformed; they can’t be tied to the plank without a lot of sweat and heaving, and then the…

— Hilary Mantel

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet…

— Albert Camus

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

“At first they’d thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in…

— Hilary Mantel

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

— Herbert Lom

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

— Milan Kundera

“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of…

— Grant Morrison

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

— Hans Arp

I feel really, really comfortable with chokes, with my guillotine, especially.

— Brandon Moreno

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

— Dennis Cooper

Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their guilty leaders…

— Roseanne Barr

“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.”

— Paulo Coelho