Top 45 Quotes About Butchers
#1. Of the seven butchers who interest us, four are Tatars and three are Yids. They're at the top of the list of suspects. But, to avoid any reproaches of prejudice, I'm arresting the lot. And I'll give them a thorough working over. I
Boris Akunin
#2. Well, then, this Loriot, who sold corn to those butchers, has never had but one passion, they say - he idolizes his daughters.
Honore De Balzac
#3. It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers' shops, the stacks of new-minted silver pennies, and then the woman's private parts. For a while, he knew, those pictures would come back to him to unsettle his meditations.
Ken Follett
#4. In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring - if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here.
Theodore Dreiser
#5. Yes, I am a terrorist, and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.
Ramzi Yousef
#6. Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians ... or just mindless butchers?
Dimitri Zaik
#7. It was Voltaire who said that 'in a government, you need both shepherds and butchers.' The problem in France was that the butchers kept killing the shepherds, while the sheep turned cannibal.
Stephen Clarke
#8. All professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.
Robert Musil
#9. Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
Blake Morrison
#10. The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#11. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
#13. In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#14. To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards. For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. 165 Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
William Shakespeare
#15. Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.
Mark Kermode
#16. I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.
Christien Meindertsma
#17. Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.
George Steiner
#18. The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.
Edward S. Herman
#19. I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.
Paul O'Grady
#20. I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's ass but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.
Chris Farley
#21. Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre
#23. I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'
Tommy Cooper
#24. Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6
Gloria Golden
#25. My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."
Frank Carson
#26. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
#27. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Jonathan Swift
#28. A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#29. I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.
Sean Pertwee
#30. Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Miguel De Cervantes
#31. One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
Jean De La Fontaine
#32. He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
Isabel Allende
#33. I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."
Chic Murray
#34. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
#35. The most common lesson of history is that the butchery of one mass of people by another is, in the minds of the butchers, sanctioned by their god.
Dee Hock
#36. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.
Ralph Peters
#37. The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.
Theodore Beale
#38. When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
Winston Churchill
#41. Never throw a butcher knife in anger.
Homer
#42. I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
Rab Butler
#43. The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing.
Louise Erdrich
#44. The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived ... Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.
Terry Teachout
#45. Iscussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher ...
George Bernard Shaw
