Top 30 Madame Roland Quotes
#1. Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington
pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc
romantic, devoted, marvelous.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#2. Are you Hannah's boyfriend?"
... Marco's reply was, "Nope. She won't let me be."
Beth had immediately turned her cute look of consternation on me. "That's really rude, Hannah.
Samantha Young
#3. The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
Madame Roland
#4. I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
Madame Roland
#5. We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph
#8. People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
Madame Roland
#9. Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.
Madame Roland
#10. It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.
Madame Roland
#11. The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.
Madame Roland
#13. At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.
Heidi Julavits
#14. Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.
Eriq La Salle
#15. It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.
Madame Roland
#16. I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.
Eric San
#17. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
#18. O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Madame Roland
#19. Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Madame Roland
#20. A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Madame Roland
#21. Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.
Madame Roland
#22. Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
Madame Roland
#23. There is something sad, dreamy, and in the highest degree poetic in a lonely grave ... You can hear its silence, and in this silence you sense the presence of the soul of the unknown person who lies under the cross. Is it good for this soul in the steppe? Does it languish
Anton Chekhov
#24. The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
Marilyn Manson
#25. [A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.
Paul Bowles
#26. The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
#27. You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
Dylan Moran
#28. If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.
Sara Sheridan
#29. The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
John E. Jones III
#30. If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
Madame Roland