French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention.…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Friedrich tugged on the collar of his military jacket and shook his head. Duchess Lacreux was a cunning woman—not at all what he expected.…

— K.M. Shea

I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious…

— Madame Roland

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking…

— Hilary Mantel

Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.

— A'Lelia Bundles

“What, may I ask, does your one truck contain if not gowns?” Inspiration struck, and Elizabeth smiled radiantly. “Something of great value. Priceless value,”…

— Judith McNaught

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he thought, there's…

— Hilary Mantel

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's…

— Lauren DeStefano