Top 100 Quotes About Monsieur
#1. Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions ... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.
Victor Hugo
#2. Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody." "Ah, ah!
Alexandre Dumas
#3. Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls - and I have just discovered that mine is of the number - a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.
Alexandre Dumas
#4. I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
William Shakespeare
#5. Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
Albert Camus
#6. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.
Vincent De Paul
#7. One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away.
Anonymous
#8. Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.
Louise Penny
#9. What would you like to do with it?' he pressed. Grace thought a moment. 'Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.' He
Kathleen Tessaro
#10. If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
Felix Feneon
#11. The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.
Emmuska Orczy
#12. Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
Jules Verne
#13. Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.
Vincent De Paul
#14. Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.
Alexandre Dumas
#15. Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
Carine Roitfeld
#16. Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.
Victor Hugo
#17. But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Philip Gibbs
#18. How goes it, Jacques?" said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge. "Is all the spilt wine swallowed?" "Every drop, Jacques,
Charles Dickens
#19. Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.
Guy De Maupassant
#20. If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring
Vincent De Paul
#21. Your clothing is not - how do we say? - not in harmony with the evening. Your shoes - oh, your shoes! I could write several depressing poems in the styling of Monsieur Camus about the existential problems posed by your shoes.
Christopher Bunn
#22. I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.
Debra Dean
#23. I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.
Alexandre Dumas
#24. One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.
Victor Hugo
#26. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow." ~ Monsieur Verdoux
J.J. McAvoy
#27. Too late, my dear Monsieur Chambertin! Sir Percy's mocking voice broke in,
Emmuska Orczy
#28. Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Agatha Christie
#29. I can give you my word of honor." "And pray what may be the value of that?" inquired the amused Regent. "Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]
Le Figaro
#31. It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might really be the cause of all these shocking phantasms, which tortured me so at Archivarius Lindhorst's door.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#32. Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture
Lily Amis
#33. I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.
John Gallagher Jr.
#34. Passepartout.' 'Passepartout suits me,' responded Mr. Fogg. 'You are well recommended to me; I hear a good report of you. You know my conditions?' 'Yes, monsieur.' 'Good! What time is it?' 'Twenty-two minutes after eleven,' returned Passepartout, drawing
Anonymous
#35. I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
Vincent De Paul
#36. In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable or disagreeable. By the grace of God, we belong to Him; what else should we desire except to please Him?
Vincent De Paul
#37. In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.
Vincent De Paul
#38. It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.
Anne Rouen
#39. Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
Albert Camus
#40. Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.
Charles Perrault
#41. Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
Victor Hugo
#42. On the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.
Sarah Vowell
#43. To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
Thomas A. Edison
#44. Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.
Emile Zola
#45. Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
Vincent De Paul
#47. That awful cockroach story! The mother chasing her own son away with a broom. Horrible. I was cleaning obsessively for days. Is that typical of this Monsieur Kafka?" "You've summed it up well, Madame. Some people have to study it for decades to get the meaning.
Nina George
#48. Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful!
The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares!
Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
The Doctor: Me!
Steven Moffat
#49. O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
Vincent De Paul
#50. [ ... ] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.'
'As sanitary engineer?'
'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.
Bruce Chatwin
#51. It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.
Charlotte Bronte
#52. You know, Monsieur, that Age is always a ticklish subject with a Woman. Come! come!
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#53. Have you no friends who could help you in these circumstances?' Morrel smiled sadly and said: 'In business, Monsieur, as you very well know, one has no friends, only associates.
Alexandre Dumas
#54. I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#55. I called Monsieur Menicucci, and he asked anxiously about my pipes. I told him they were holding up well. "That pleases me," he said, "because it is minus five degrees, the roads are perilous, and I am fifty-eight years old. I am staying at home." He paused, then added, "I shall play the clarinet.
Peter Mayle
#56. But the point is this Monsieur ... the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.
Daphne Du Maurier
#57. The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
Delphine Arnault
#58. Monsieur, you must be mad!
Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#59. It is true, monsieur! At a certain age your sight comes back, rejuvenated.
Kermit Lynch
#60. In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.
Vincent De Paul
#61. Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.
Victor Hugo
#62. Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.
Vincent De Paul
#63. Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#64. No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark lay hidden in the dregs of it.
Charles Dickens
#65. Well, if he comes when I'm out, tell him to wait. And now, Jeeves, mes gants, mon chapeau, et le whangee de monsieur. I must be popping.
P.G. Wodehouse
#66. What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Honore De Balzac
#67. In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.
Vincent De Paul
#68. The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind.
Leo Tolstoy
#69. Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.
Rachel L. Demeter
#70. Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash.
Paul Tobin
#72. It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death. Is it not so, Jacques?
Charles Dickens
#73. Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.
Nina George
#74. You have suspicions, nevertheless?" "Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.
Alexandre Dumas
#75. - The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.
- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.
Neil Gaiman
#76. And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
She tried to smile once more and expired
Victor Hugo
#77. What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.
Rick Riordan
#78. Then Monsieur is satisfied?" asked Planchet. "My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men!" "And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?
Alexandre Dumas
#79. Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could
Anthony Doerr
#80. Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.
Victor Hugo
#81. Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
Vincent De Paul
#82. See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.
Victor Hugo
#83. [T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#84. That's all for today, Monsieur Antichrist.
Albert Camus
#85. This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.
Anatole France
#86. Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then one can tie a message under its wing when needful.
Charlotte Bronte
#87. Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.
Marcel Proust
#88. Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#89. You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
Vincent De Paul
#90. It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity.
Henri Murger
#91. I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word."
"'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone," said Lumiere.
"'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it
Jennifer Donnelly
#92. All right, Monsieur Jay,' she said, smiling. 'I'll tell them you're OK.
Joanne Harris
#93. You know better than I, Monsieur,' said he, 'that to lie with a girl is only to make her do what pleases her; there is often a great distance between that and making her do what we want.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#94. People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur?
Patrick Modiano
#95. Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
Charlotte Bronte
#96. Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This
illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the
world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages,
of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
Preston Sturges
#98. Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words ...
Cassandra Clare
#99. That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
Albert Camus
#100. Commence," was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, "at the commencement.
Charles Dickens
