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Quotes About Decapitation

May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?
~ Bram Stoker
Off with their heads!
~ Frank Beddor
Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, Naja said, and that doesn't involve magic.
~ Terry Goodkind
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.
~ George R.R. Martin
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
~ Lewis Carroll
I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.
~ Jeffrey Bernard
Until the early middle years of the sixteenth century, when King Henry VIII began to quarrel with Rome about the dialectics of divorce and decapitation, a short and swift route to torture and death was the attempt to print the Bible in English. It's
~ Christopher Hitchens
Does this smack of magic to you? Because allow me to inform you, my handsome young prince, that this be not enchantment – it be work!" With that I hurled my slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.) Marshalling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor – challenging indeed with one shoe – and around the corner.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
We had reached a time when a fowl could hover and fly about without its head.
~ Vilhelm Moberg
He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." "Yes. He does.
~ Charlie Huston
Don, Corrine, and everyone else on the island was trapped here with a murderer who didn't just kill but committed unspeakable acts. Like decapitating a man, biting chunks out of people, beating a man until he was unrecognizable. For the duration of the Split, neither the killer nor his potential victims could get away from each other, and the local police had no idea who the murderer was. Otherwise, everything was great.
~ Chet Williamson
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
While Antony had gazed in sorrow at his fallen adversary on the battlefield of Philippi, his youthful colleague had shed no tears. Instead, ordering Brutus's corpse decapitated, he had packed the head off to Rome. There, with pointed symbolism, it had been placed at the foot of the statue where Caesar had died.
~ Tom Holland
At first they'd thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in a day, there are problems of scale.
~ Hilary Mantel
Usually he is the soul of courtesy. But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?
~ Hilary Mantel
The neck which was short and thick, seemed to tempt the axe.
~ Honore de Balzac
In the days when decapitation was public, not only were small boys sent to witness the ghastly scene, but they were made to visit alone the place in the darkness of night and there to leave a mark of their visit on the trunkless head.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
queria saber apenas para onde vão os piolhos dos decapitados. Um enigma.
~ Unknown
Staking is a terrible way to go. I'd much rather be decapitated. It still makes an awful mess but it's a lot more dignified than your limbs twittering all over the place. - Jo March
~ Unknown
1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
~ Max Brooks