There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
If my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
I can’t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.
Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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.
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
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.
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine