Top 148 Madame Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."
Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — © David Mitchell
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
I've been to Madame Tussaud's. Three times.
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.
Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.
Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary. — © Joseph McCarthy
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
I went to London in the '70s and also visited Madame Tussauds there. At that time, the only Indian figure that was exhibited there was of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's.
I had never imagined that one day, my statue would be installed at Madame Tussauds.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.
I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.
I want to be like Madame de Stael.
Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea
Just saw a woman with a t-shirt that said southern and sassy, it's all good. Well madame, I beg to differ, it is in fact, not 'all good'.
In France, I am just Madame Campbell. In Jamaica, nobody uses my title.
Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation's capital and one that I'm proud to be a part of.
You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter. — © Gail Carriger
Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?
The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame Récamier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out.
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to look at what it was because I didn't care, and it turned out to be Madame Butterfly. So I processed the aria from Madame Butterfly in my system and I played with it.
Madame Bovary is myself.
Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.' — © Les Dawson
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.
The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.
I am really happy to have been selected by Madame Tussauds.
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
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