“Off with his head—; so much for Buckingham.”
Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
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“Kong bites his head off in a PG13 kinda way”
Peter Jackson (1961) New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
A note in the 1996 script for 'King Kong quoted in USA Today http://www.angelfire.com/ri/KingKong33/mar05.html
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
To Algernon Sidney, one of the judges at the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
“If he that would summon a Parliament be of the Signoria, let his head be cut off”
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher
Sermon of July 28, 1495, which historian Ludwig Pastor calls Savonarola's "sermon against the tumultuous assemblies, misnamed parliaments, which the Medici encouraged to serve their own ends", as quoted in History of the Popes (1898) by Ludwig Pastor, vol. 5, p. 209. http://books.google.com/books?id=MZ4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209&dq=%22let+his+head+be+cut+off%22+savonarola&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H-ElT-DWOLGpsAKxqP2MAg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22let%20his%20head%20be%20cut%20off%22%20savonarola&f=false <br class="br">Context: If he that would summon a Parliament be of the Signoria, let his head be cut off; if he be not of it, let him be proclaimed a rebel and all his goods confiscated; … should the Signoria seek to call a Parliament … all may cut them to pieces without sin.
“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind
“My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Context: No one sees more clearly than the socialist that nothing could prove more disastrous to the democratic cause than to have the present class conflict break into a civil war. If such a war becomes necessary, it will be in spite of the organized socialists, who, in every country of the world, not only seek to avoid, but actually condemn, riotous, tempestuous, and violent measures. Such measures do not fit into their philosophy, which sees, as the cause of our present intolerable social wrongs, not the malevolence of individuals or of classes, but the workings of certain economic laws. One can cut off the head of an individual, but it is not possible to cut off the head of an economic law. From the beginning of the modern socialist movement, this has been perfectly clear to the socialist, whose philosophy has taught him that appeals to violence tend, as Engels has pointed out, to obscure the understanding of the real development of things.
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“She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill
Source: The Big Fat Kill