Scaffold Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Scaffold


It is the toilet of death, but it leads to immortality. Charlotte Corday.	1
I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner. Danton.	2
I hope the edge of your guillotine is sharper than your scissors. Duclos.	3
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation. Sir P. Sidney.	4
They are sending me to the scaffold. Well, my friends, we must go to it gayly. Danton.	5
When they go smiling to the scaffold, it is time to break in pieces the sickle of death. Danton.	6
Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. Shakespeare.	7
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. J. L. David.	8