Madame X Quotes

#1. Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

Arthur Rimbaud

#2. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.

David Mitchell

#3. As I live and breath. The master is returned from parts unknown."
"Hi, Madame," Max said, planting a kiss on the woman's cheek.

Heather Graham

#4. The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

Madame Roland

#5. 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?

Gustave Flaubert

#6. It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Madame De Stael

#8. 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.

Sophie Barthes

#9. Madame Semele seemed torn between her desire to threaten and to cajole, and the emotions chased each other so nakedly across her face that she seemed almost to vibrate with the effort of keeping them in check.

Neil Gaiman

#10. If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Madame Roland

#11. Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Madame De Stael

#12. Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Gustave Flaubert

#13. 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'.

Dov Davidoff

#14. 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.

Tom Robbins

#15. How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Madame De Stael

#16. One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame De Stael

#17. The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Madame Necker

#18. When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna ...

W. Ann Reynolds

#19. In your face, E! X totally won that bet. The dark madame left the room to let X continue to bleed out. X had one other thought beyond destroying the female. Where the hell did she get those sweet shoes?

Marie Johnston

#20. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Madame De Stael

#21. Inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Madame De Stael

#22. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Madame De Stael

#23. Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

Madame De Stael

#24. I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was seated between Madame Duval and Sir Clement, who seemed as little as myself to desire Lord Orville's presence. Indeed,

Fanny Burney

#25. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame De Stael

#26. The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

Madame De Stael

#27. Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Madame De Stael

#28. O memory, thou bitter sweet,
both a joy and a scourge!

Madame De Stael

#29. You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The

Gail Carriger

#30. All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Madame De Stael

#31. It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now." Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. "I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our

Anthony Doerr

#32. Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Anthony Doerr

#33. However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

Madame De Stael

#34. The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

Louis Pasteur

#35. I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

Lydia Davis

#36. The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.

Charles Dickens