Madam Quotes
101 Madam quotes by 73 unique authors
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You had your turn madam, let me have mine ... Let me complete. I'm sorry, it's my turn.
— Mitt Romney
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
— Samuel Johnson
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Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
— Peter Ustinov
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam,…
— Samuel Richardson
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A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you…
— Thomas Beecham
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam…
— Juno Temple
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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…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are…
— James Keller
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself
— Groucho Marx
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Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness…
— Nick Rahall
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Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
— Chris Chocola
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I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
— Ethel Merman
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Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
— Samuel Johnson
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
— Louisa May Alcott
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In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray…
— Samuel Richardson
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night…
— Vidal Sassoon
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
— Sydney Smith
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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me…
— Emma Thompson
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It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Madam Quotes
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