Quotes of: Madam Keyword

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

False Positives: A Techno Thriller

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?

All the Light We Cannot See

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

Madam, Will You Talk?

Madame Magloire," retorted the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps.

Les Misérables

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Madame Bovary

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Madame Bovary

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Madame Bovary

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

Madame Bovary

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Madame Bovary

But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Madame Bovary

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.

Madame Bovary

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

Madame Bovary

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

Madame Bovary

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

Madame Bovary

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

Quidditch Through the Ages

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre

Pedro Almodovar

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

Lydia Davis

Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!" Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." (Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on ...

Christine Quinn