Madame Defarge Quote by Charles Dickens

“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…

— Charles Dickens

“She wove stories about this lord and that lady, calling them by their clothes since she didn’t always know their names.”

— V.E. Schwab

“He heard the swishing of her skirts as she approached. God above! Could she not leave well enough alone? 'There is another thing I…

— Meredith Duran

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

— Emil Cioran

“She'd once been told by her Sunday school teacher that she laughed loudly enough to distract Jesus from performing miracles.”

— Tessa Bailey

“At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.”

— Kathy Griffin

“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on…

— Gary Shteyngart

“There were creases at the corners of her mouth, the marks of too many words bitten back.”

— Frances Hardinge

“....he proceeded to cut carefully a thin slice from the loaf, which he quartered in pieces and buttered for her, the whole business very…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name…

— Bryan Chapell

“After my wife was killed in that pogrom in Russia, I came to England with only my tools, and when I saw the white…

— Terry Pratchett

“I bit my lip and raised my eyebrows”

— Annie Jocoby