Bas Rutten

Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

Dutch Athlete

Terry Teachout

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

American Critic

Brian Grazer

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

American Producer

Roseanne Barr

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

American Actress

P. G. Wodehouse

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

English Writer

Victor LaValle

The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

American Author

Tom Malinowski

With no guillotine, 'A Tale of Two Cities' would have been a travel guide.

Herbert Lom

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

Czechoslovakian Actor

David Hockney

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

English Artist

Jessica Andrade

Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist

The word conveys the gravity of historical death penalties.

Historical Gravity

Guillotine symbolizes the French Revolution and social upheaval.

Cultural Symbol

Use with sensitivity, due to its connection to death.

Not for Casual Use

Implying swift, sometimes harsh, actions or cuts.

Metaphor for Speed

Used to describe abrupt, decisive actions.

Sharp Decisions

It refers to an instrument that makes exact cuts.

Precision Tool

Most common in printing and paper-related industries.

Industry Specific

Involves a pruning tool, not related to execution devices.

Gardening Context

Designed for easy, clean cuts in gardening.

Ease of Use

A tactic to curtail discussions and hasten decisions.

Political Strategy

Figurative use, it doesn't involve physical cutting.

Not Actual Cutting

 where they fit perfectly. When Hans and Sophie confessed, they were immediately led to court and sentenced to death by guillotine. Despite a grueling interrogation, the two refused to betray their co-conspirators. Before her execution, Sophie declared her fury at the state of her country.

The secret student...

 more than my students needed their dignity. We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't. Silence is the residue of fear. It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue.

The danger of silence PIPE...

 With that many daggers, this shark may not need as much bite force as a bull shark. While the bull shark's teeth act like a buzz saw, a white shark's function like a guillotine. Great white sharks have 24 teeth on the top