Quotes of Madam - somelinesforyou

“ I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there mey be a wife someplace else. ”

- Bella Abzug

“ Madame Bovary is myself. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. ”

- Miranda Richardson

“ Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. ”

- Leonhard Euler

“ I was lecturing to a group of English teachers about Dante. Suddenly one of them got up-English teachers, mind you-and said, What is Dante? Well, Madam, I replied, It is a kind of detergent. ”

- Ronald Duncan

“ Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? ”

- Alfred Jarry

“ Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair. ”

- William Ernest Henley

“ Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. ”

- Pierre Beaumarchais

“ Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, You're drunk! Winston Churchill: Yes, and you Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ The madam would contribute her favorite recipes to Cosmopolitan magazine. And she would eventually achieve complete respectability by either posing for a Playboy centerfold or being elected to Congress. ”

- Joan O’Sullivan

“ In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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