A Quote by Charles Dickens

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

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I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

Paul Simon

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

Ivan Panin

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

Rosalia

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

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I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.

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Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.

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La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

Mark Helprin

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Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

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Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.