11) 4776. P G Wodehouse. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ATTRIBUTION: The Old Reliable Doubleday 51...
12) Moloch. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the sacrifice of what we hold most dear. Thus, war is a Moloch, king mob is a Moloch, the guillotine was the Moloch of the French Revolution, etc. The allusion is...
13) Halifax Law. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...commits theft in the liberty of Halifax is to be executed on the Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine. 1 "At Hallifax the law so sharpe doth deale. That whoso more...
14) 10375. Camus, Albert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. ATTRIBUTION:Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher,...
15) 16201. Dickens, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. ATTRIBUTION:Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist....
16) Marie Antoinette. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
2002
...(muh-REE an-twuh-NET, an-tuh-NET) A French queen, born in Austria, who was beheaded on the guillotine during the French Revolution. Her husband, King Louis XVI, was...
17) 10274. Camus, Albert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. "Reflections on the Guillotine," Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1961)....
18) 56235. Stevens, Wallace. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...is,It is faster than the weather, faster thanAny character. It is more than any scene:Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging. ATTRIBUTION:Wallace Stevens (1879-1955),...
19) 2334. Ted Morgan. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine. ATTRIBUTION: On Robert Lacey s Ford: The Men and the Machine...
20) 1443. William F Baxter, Assistant US Attorney General. Simpson s
Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...I ve never met a litigator who didn t think he was winning—right up until the moment the guillotine dropped. ATTRIBUTION: News summaries 8 Jan 82...
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