beheaded Quotes

“A whistling woman and a crowing hen deserves to have their heads cut off?′

“Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—

“what would become of me? They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!”

The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren’t to talk nonsense.

“My, you ought to seen old Henry the Eight when he was in bloom. He was a blossom. He used to marry a new wife every day, and chop off her head next morning. And he would do it just as indifferent as if he was ordering up eggs.”