The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
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.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.
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.
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.
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand 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.
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)
If my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
