Tumbrils Quotes

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

Charles Dickens

#2. Tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer,

Charles Dickens

#3. Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!

Charles Dickens

#4. set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical

Charles Dickens

#5. Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

George Mikes

#6. I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Al Gore

#7. I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.

Tim Rice

#8. It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

Carol Tavris

#9. You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.

Stormie O'martian