Quotes About Madame

Nothing could be more forlorn than the manner in which Madame Vauthier had furnished the two rooms. It seemed as though the woman let rooms with the express purpose that no one should stay in them. Evidently the bed, chairs, tables, bureau, secretary, curtains, came from forced sales at auction, articles massed together in lots as having no separate intrinsic value.

Does a creature of fashion not need a fine mind?" asked the Polish count. "More than anything else, she must have very fine taste," answered Madame d'Espard.

she seemed to me all but crazy with admiration for that Monsieur Hugo. I'm sure I don't know where such people" (Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Byron being such people to the Madame Latournelles of the bourgeoisie) "get their ideas. Modeste kept talking to me of Childe Harold, and as I did not wish to get the worst of the argument I was silly enough to try to read the thing.

Tanto en el interior como en el exterior, Madame de Bargeton vivía siempre en público. Estos detalles sirven por sí solos para ilustrar lo que es una provincia; los deslices en ella o son confesados o son imposibles.

My word! You must be a prophet, Monsieur Vautrin!" said Madame Vauquer. "I am all sorts of things," said Jacques Collin.

But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?

Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

Madame Montholon having inquired what troops he considered the best, "Those which are victorious, Madame," replied the Emperor.

On the walls hung black-and-white portraits of men—it was only in the physics department that you could find the single female face in the whole school, Madame Maria Sk?odowska Curie's, the sole indication of the equality of the sexes. These