“ But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now—… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. P.G. Wodehouse
“ Again, take someone who’s crippled or deformed; they can’t be tied to the plank without a lot of sweat and heaving, and then the crowds (who can’t see much anyway) get bored and start hissing and catc… Hilary Mantel
“ Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him. Angela Carter
“ Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guil… Kelsey Brickl
“ They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has cr… Maximilien de Robespierre
“ So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they’d work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the publ… Dave Eggers
“ You would more probably have gone to the guillotine,' replied Sir Tristram, depressingly matter of Georgette Heyer
