Guillotine Quotes

Guillotine Quote of the day

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 executed by the guillotine

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

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

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

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.

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

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

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

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 of the times was the guillotine.

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

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

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

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

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

I can’t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

You would more probably have gone to the guillotine, ' replied Sir Tristram, depressingly matter of

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.