Guillotine Quotes

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Understand
  • Classes
  • Moneyed

• 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
  • Immortal
  • Knife
  • Permanent

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

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Woods
  • Betrayed
  • Guillotine

• Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Gun
  • Break

• 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
  • Cnn
  • Guillotine
  • Head Off

• 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
  • She
  • Words
  • Marie Antoinette

• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Virtue
  • Forgiveness
  • Republic

• 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
  • Law
  • Vengeance
  • Guillotine

• In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Leader
  • Guillotine
  • Banishment

• 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
  • Revolution
  • Belief
  • Republican

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Carry
  • Guillotine
  • Paris Streets

• 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
  • Reason
  • Idea
  • Understand

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

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Nostalgia
  • ERA
  • Guillotine

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Liberty
  • Guillotine