Quotes About Madame Defarge

#1. Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.

Gregory Maguire

#2. When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.

Charles Dickens

#3. It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment," said Madame Defarge. "Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her. Go tell her that I wish to see her. Do you hear?

Charles Dickens

#4. The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them a quick look. Then she glanced in a casual manner round

Charles Dickens

#5. It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, clasped her tight, and even lifted her from the floor in the struggle that they had.

Charles Dickens

#6. Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard

Charles Dickens

#7. 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

#8. What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector

#9. Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taslima Nasrin

#10. A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!

Katherine Mansfield

#11. My body didn't care for me, so what did I care for it?

Kiera Cass

#12. It used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#13. The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain.

Audrey Niffenegger

#14. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

Lauren Oliver

#15. Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

Laura Schlessinger

#16. We are each other's destiny.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#17. The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps.

Steven Pressfield