He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Jane Eyre despair
— I won't sully my hands with him. — Nor should you. The first rule of politics: The man who orders the execution never drops the blade! Quills Royer-Collard The Marquis de Sade politics rules Ironic Quotes
— You wanna keep playing the Hollywood squares version of «I'll blow your freaking head off»? Are you next? — You tripping, homie. Suicide Squad Rick Flag Chato Santana (El Diablo) threats
— Mr. McQueen. Since our last conversation, I have learnt the true identity of your late employer. — Y-you d-don't say. — Ratchett was, as you yourself suspected, merely an alias. He was, in fact, Cassetti. The gangster who masterminded the kidnapping and killing of little Daisy Armstrong. You had no idea of this? — Oh, no, sir. If I had... I'd have cut off my right hand so I couldn't type his lousy letters. And I'd have killed him with my left. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Hercule Poirot Hector MacQueen murder Beautiful Quotes
— What's that smell? — It smells like sulfur. — Do not burn our hair of the feet. How forests person? — I do not know the first time I burn. I think for about an hour. — An hour? So long? — Yes. But first, you will choke. There is no bad without good. <...> — Alfonso. Alfonso! I like you. — What? — As a man, you know? — Why not burn, is not it time? — Jaime. You're my friend, I appreciate very much, but I fear that it is neither the time nor the place to talk about it. Burning with shame. Las brujas de Zugarramurdi confession Ironic Quotes
Sae rantonly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly played he. He played a tune and he danced a-roon, Below the gallows tree. Samuil Marshak autocracy law Sarcastic Quotes
When they caught sight of Don Pedro they scowled at him, and some of them looked terrified, for only a few weeks before he had had two of their tribe hanged for sorcery in the marketplace at Seville... Oscar Wilde The Birthday of the Infanta fright witchcraft Sarcastic Quotes