Top 161 Madam Quotes & Sayings

The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the definitions others had given her.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

As one of the pioneers of modern hair care and cosmetics, Madam Walker is still an inspiration to a lot of people going into the business.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Hillary Clinton'll be Madam President and we'll be in the White House.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New York.

A lot of people think Oprah is channeling for Madam Walker, and there are lots of parallels.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

Madam Chief Minister' is one of the most exciting scripts I have read and it possessed me.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.

Madam Walker, as part of the first generation out of slavery, really was inventing the way that she operated in the world.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

I can't believe I'm gonna be immortalized in Madam Tussauds! Dream come true.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler