Guillotine Quotes

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Class

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hair, Getting Older

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

  Charles Dickens

  Liberty, Lasts, Fraternity

  Charles Dickens (1868). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.320

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• 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

  Expression, Law, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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  I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

  Marie Antoinette

  Mother, Queens, Children

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

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Belief

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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

  Albert Camus

  Forgiveness, Republic, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

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

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Opiates, Might, Communism

  1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.

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

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, My Thoughts, Ifs

  Song: It's Alright, Ma

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• Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

  Marie Antoinette

  Children, Father, Farewell

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• The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

  Herbert Lom

  Used

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

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Paris, Six

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Machines, Reason

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.81, 谷月社

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

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Opiates, Communism, Communism And Socialism

  Newsweek, January 24, 1955.

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

  Dennis Cooper

  Eras, Nostalgia, Feels

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Single Life

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• 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

  Mean, Cutting, Reality

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Shadow, Reign, Terror

  "The Devil and Miss Prym‎". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2000.

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• If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

  Gerald Celente

  Fashion, May, Want

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• Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

  Charles Dickens

  Hair, Foundation, Female

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.252, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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 Lenz

  Fall, Cutting, Gaining Power

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• 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

  Mean, Science, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Headache, Cures

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• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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