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The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently. -- Herbert Lom
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! -- Charles Dickens
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine -- Baroness Orczy
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!" -- Charles Dickens
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. -- Charles Dickens
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. -- Franz Kafka
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. -- Franz Kafka
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. -- Ambrose Bierce
If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine. -- Bob Dylan
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. -- George Bernard Shaw
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. -- Milan Kundera
The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. -- Dustin Penner
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. -- Albert Camus
For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache. -- Ivan Panin
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 guilty. -- Roseanne Barr
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. -- Susan Neiman
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 -- Peter Weiss
Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine! -- Roseanne Barr
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine. -- Robert Dallek
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. -- Terry Teachout
I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality. -- Alice Cooper
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day. -- Roseanne Barr
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? -- Guy Endore
Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it. -- Bas Rutten
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine. -- John Adams
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly? -- Salman Rushdie
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 for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. -- Franz Kafka
Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. -- Robert Cormier
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine? -- Dennis Cooper
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. -- Rowan Atkinson
Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine. -- Paulo Coelho
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. -- Victor Hugo
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
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
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine. -- Camille Desmoulins
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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... -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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. -- Albert Camus
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) -- 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 executed by the guillotine -- Marie Antoinette
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. -- Wallace Stevens

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