Guillotined Quotes

#1. The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

Sandra Gulland

#2. In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

Jean-Paul Marat

#3. He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist, Gill said.

Jo Walton

#4. I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

James Tiptree Jr.

#5. One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

Georges Danton

#7. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Stephen Clarke

#8. I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#9. The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.

Neil Gaiman

#10. I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

Caroline Kepnes

#11. Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days

it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.

John Burnside

#12. Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

Salman Rushdie

#13. I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

Penny Pritzker

#14. Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

Nikki Sixx

#15. Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Dorothy Richardson

#16. Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

Neville Goddard

#17. The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.

Julian Barnes

#18. I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

John Steinbeck