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Quotes About Butchers

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.
~ Paul O'Grady
It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers' shops, the stacks of new-minted silver pennies, and then the woman's private parts. For a while, he knew, those pictures would come back to him to unsettle his meditations.
~ Ken Follett
Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.
~ Ron Chernow
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
~ Jonathan Swift
twisted form of Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, and frankly, it's protected many a bad doctor and some true butchers.
~ John J. Nance
Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
~ Brigitte Bardot
The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious, also she had heard poor people eat heaps of sheeps' heads and she went on to ask if I ever cooked them. I said I would rather be dead than cook or eat a sheep's head; I'd seen them in butchers' shops with awful eyes and bits of wool sticking to their skulls. After that helpful hints for the poor were forgotten.
~ Barbara Comyns
It's turning a warrior race, the hammer of the Scots, the butchers of the Welsh and Irish, the ravagers of half the globe, into a docile herd of consumers who care for nothing but woolly jumpers and soft music
~ Barry Maitland
Of the seven butchers who interest us, four are Tatars and three are Yids. They're at the top of the list of suspects. But, to avoid any reproaches of prejudice, I'm arresting the lot. And I'll give them a thorough working over. I
~ Boris Akunin
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
~ Isabel Allende
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
~ Zimmermann
A tragic time indeed for clearsighted men and lovers of justice; the greedy ones were rubbing their hands and the butchers were sharpening their knives all over the world. Every gain that had been made in the World War had been thrown away, and every principle for which Woodrow Wilson had fought had been mocked.
~ Upton Sinclair
Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The king's companions are prepared to march. So scented, the courtiers, so urbane: the rustle of silk, the soundless tread of padded shoes. But slaughter is their trade. Like butchers in the shambles, it is what they were reared for. Peace, to them, is just the interval between wars.
~ Hilary Mantel
Florence Earlier today we strolled across the Ponte Vecchio. This bridge was built over the Arno River in 1345. It is lined with jewelry shops. Originally, the shops were used by blacksmiths, tanners, and butchers. They dumped their waste into the river, causing quite a smell! A corridor above the shops was added later. This allowed the Medici family--rulers of Florence--to move about without having to come in contact with the public.
~ Unknown
These windows were dedicated to the patron saints of the guilds and often showed the donors at work: furriers displaying a fur robe, money-changers testing their coin, butchers killing oxen. Even the common laborers, who somehow managed to pool their meager resources, donated a window, which was dedicated to Adam, "who first dug the earth by the sweat of his brow."5
~ Peter Turchin
Well, then, this Loriot, who sold corn to those butchers, has never had but one passion, they say — he idolizes his daughters.
~ Honore de Balzac
I could look at stationers' shops for ever and ever. Rose says they are the dullest shops in the world except, perhaps, butchers'. (I don't see how you can call butchers' shops dull; they are too full of horror.)
~ Dodie Smith
Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.
~ Unknown
Rabbit in Keane's world is a food more suitable for the lower echelons of society (and children: 'the cook sent up [to the nursery] whatever came easiest, mostly rabbit stews,' Aroon notes). It is available to all from the fields; it is not procured from butchers, sanitised and billed-for.
~ Unknown
Going on stage was like being at a butchers' convention. And, of course, the animal rights people were going nuts. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent people to 'monitor' our gigs. The crew would f**k with them all the time. They'd say, 'Oh, Ozzy's going to throw eighteen puppies into the audience tonight, and he won't sing a note until they've all been slaughtered.' The ASPCA believed every word of it.
~ Ozzy Osbourne