Un Picasso e¤  tudie un objet comme un chirurgien disse'  que un cadavre. A Picasso studies an object like a surgeon dissects a corpse.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Peintres cubistes; Me¤  ditations esthe¤  tiques,'Sur la peinture, 2'.

I met Curzon in Downing Street, and received the sort of greeting a corpse would give an undertaker.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Of his rival for the premiership, Lord Curzon, on the death of Bonar Law.  Attributed.

That is ever the way.'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
Quality Street (published1913), act1.

He'd make a lovely corpse.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Mrs Gamp speaking of  Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

A conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones† A resuscitated corpse might be a resuscitated corpse and might be the sign of something, butthere isstill the questionof what it is the symbol of.

-Jenkins, David Edward
  Of the Christian doctrine of Christ's physical resurrection. 'Poles  Apart', BBC radio broadcast, 4 Oct.

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Letter to  J Middleton Murry, 3 Oct.

   Ihadthoughttoevokethesoulof Italy but all Ifind before me is its corpse.

-Mazzini, Giuseppe
Attributed. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy:  A Modern History (1959).

Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero, and I'll show you a corpse.

-Puzo, Mario
  Fools Die, ch.2.

To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his younger brother popped on to histhrone and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactlyare you behaving in this extraordinary manner.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
  To Hamlet. Rosecrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, act1.

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve¤   qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

-Vian, Boris
  L'Herbe rouge.

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

-Webster, Daniel
  Speech, NewYork,10