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Tag Name "Madame" (54)

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway
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Flaubert's famous sentence, Madame Bovary, c'est moi (Madame Bovary, she is me), in reality means, Madame Bovary, c'est nous (Madame Bovary, she is us), in our modern incapacity to live a good-enough life.
Sophie Barthes
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Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.
James Laver
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Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.
Edith Wharton
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I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, Glory is the bright mourning of happiness.
Brigitte Bardot
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
David Mitchell
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