Madame Du Barry Quotes

#1. Sophie did this?" He said, not for the first time. They were standing at the foot of Jessamine's bed. She lay flung upon it, her chest rising and falling slowly like the famous Sleeping Beauty waxwork or Madame du Barry. Her fair hair was scattered on the pillow, and a large, bloody welt ran across her forehead. Each of her wrists was tied to a post of the bed. "Our Sophie?"
Tessa glanced over at Sophie, who was sitting in a chair by the door. Her head was down, and she was staring at her hands. She studiously avoided looking at Tessa or Will. "Yes,"Tessa said, "and do stop repeating it."
" I think i may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be on the cards."
Sophie whimpered. #Quote by Cassandra Clare

#2. The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses and politicians: the Duchesse de Crequy-Montmorency and Madame Roland; Madame du Barry and Madame Brissot; the random debris of a sunken ship thrown together for a moment by the tide of fortune and a moment later violently dispersed. All of them were already ghosts, standing on the shoreline of the last limits of life, waiting their turn for Charon and his grim tumbrel to ferry them across the Styx. #Quote by Stanley Loomis

#3. Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them. #Quote by Virginia Woolf

#4. Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel. #Quote by Steven Moffat

#5. A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors would otherwise have allowed. (French doctors are always very good about recognizing the importance of social events, and certainly in this case had the patients been forbidden the ball the might easily have fretted themselves to death.) One came as the Duchesse de Berri with l'Enfant du Miracle, and the other as Madame de Montespan and the Duc du Maine. The two husbands, the ghost of the Duc de Berri, a dagger sticking out of his evening dress, and Louis XIV, were rather embarrassed really by the horrible screams of their so very young heirs, and hurried to the bar together. The noise was indeed terrific, and Albertine said crossly that had she been consulted she would, in this case, have permitted and even encouraged the substitution of dolls. The infants were then dumped down to cry themselves to sleep among the coats on her bed, whence they were presently collected by their mothers' monthly nannies. Nobody thereafter could feel quite sure that the noble families of Bregendir and Belestat were not hopelessly and for ever interchanged. As their initials and coronets were, unfortunately, the same, and their baby linen came from the same shop, it was impossible to identify the children for certain. The mothers were sent for, but the pleasures of society rediscovered having greatly befogged their maternal instincts, they were obliged to admit they had no i #Quote by Nancy Mitford

#6. Gaston's wife, who wept upon the instant, said to me, 'Death is beautiful. Madame Jean might be an angel in the sky.' I did not agree. Death was an executioner, lopping a flower before it bloomed. The sky had glories enough, but not the soil. #Quote by Daphne Du Maurier

#7. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses. #Quote by Madame Du Deffand

#8. One may have preferences, but why exclusions? #Quote by Madame Du Chatelet

#9. Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol. #Quote by L.M. Montgomery

#10. I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. #Quote by Barry Manilow

#11. I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow. #Quote by Barry Goldwater

#12. one of my press comments may have been literally true: "This may be the biggest collection of theocrats in one #Quote by Barry W. Lynn

#13. I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.' #Quote by Barry Goldwater

#14. The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. #Quote by Dave Barry

#15. Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming #Quote by Max Barry

#16. Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's. #Quote by Barry Graham

#17. Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless. #Quote by Dave Barry

#18. Because I thought it was still possible everything was all right. Why did I think that? Because I had not heard otherwise. I was in the middle of a mystery. #Quote by Sebastian Barry

#19. Land!" shouted Thomas. "Is there food?" asked Tubby Ted. #Quote by Dave Barry

#20. I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. #Quote by Barry Hannah

#21. The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home. #Quote by Barry Gibb

#22. We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors. #Quote by Barry Ritholtz

#23. I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form. #Quote by Kevin Barry

#24. His safe haven had turned into an ambush. #Quote by Barry Lyga

#25. You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. #Quote by Marcus Du Sautoy

#26. Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out. #Quote by Dave Barry

#27. I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really. #Quote by Robert Barry

#28. Madame Merle was very appreciative; she liked almost everything, including the English rain. "There is always a little of it, and never too much at once," she said; "and it never wets you, and it always smells good. #Quote by Henry James

#29. My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving. #Quote by Anton Du Beke

#30. It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness. #Quote by Dave Barry

#31. It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer ... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem #Quote by Barry Lynes

#32. She stood in the middle of my bedroom, gazing around with wide eyes. I hadn't made my bed. In three years. And the walls were plastered with wakeboarding posters and snowboarding posters and surfing posters (I was going to learn to snowboard and surf someday, too). It all might have been overwhelming at first-not exactly House Beautiful.
"Is this McGillicuddy's room?" she asked.
"What! No. McGillicuddy's a neat freak. Also he collects Madame Alexander dolls."
She turned her wide eyes on me.
"Kidding! I'm kidding," I backtracked. Why did I have to make up stuff like that? My family was weird enough for real. #Quote by Jennifer Echols

#33. Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff. #Quote by Dave Barry

#34. Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic, run out of food, or be killed by a bear. Far less violent events, however, are the common experience of most people who travel in wild landscapes. A sublime encounter with perhaps the most essential attribute of wilderness - falling into resonance with a system of unmanaged, non-human-centered relationships - can be as fulfilling as running a huge and difficult rapid. Sometimes they prove, indeed, to be the same thing. #Quote by Barry Lopez

#35. It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it. #Quote by Barry Humphries

#36. I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble. #Quote by Barry Manilow

#37. And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough? #Quote by Anthony Doerr