Madam Quotes

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business. (Chester A. Arthur)
Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals. View quote
Pierre Beaumarchais
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. View quote
Sydney Smith
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. View quote
Leonhard Euler
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I have seen their backs before, madam. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. View quote
W. C. Fields
QUEEN Thou knowst tis common all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. View quote
William Shakespeare
When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming? (Andrew Sean Greer)
The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” "Don't try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down! View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. View quote
Chris Chocola
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 designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill. View quote
Nick Rahall
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Mulla, Mulla, my son has written from the Abode of Learning to say that he has completely finished his studies!" "Console yourself, madam, with the thought that God will no doubt send him more. View quote
Nasreddin
A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, "Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." View quote
Samuel Johnson
If their princes exceed their bounds, Madam, no doubt they may be resisted, even by power. For there is neither greater honor, nor greater obedience, to be given to kings or princes, than God hath commanded to be given unto father and mother. But the father may be stricken with a frenzy, in which he would slay his children. If the children arise, join themselves together, apprehend the father, take the sword from him, bind his hands, and keep him in prison till his frenzy be overpast: think ye, Madam, that the children do any wrong? It is even so, Madam, with princes that would murder the children of God that are subjects unto them. Their blind zeal is nothing but a very mad frenzy, and therefore, to take the sword from them, to bind their hands, and to cast them into prison, till they be brought to a more sober mind, is no disobedience against princes, but just obedience, because it agreeth with the will of God. (John Knox)
Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping. View quote
John Knox
I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill (...) I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioner and say every 5 years or every 7 years... Just put them there and say: 'Sir,' –or 'madam,'– 'will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little bit more then clearly we cannot use the big organisation of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive. Because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.' View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw: Madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? Actress: My goodness, Well, I'd certainly think about it Shaw: Would you sleep with me for a pound? Actress: Certainly not! What kind of woman do you think I am?! Shaw: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling over the price. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up. [in response to a lady who said that a landscape reminded her of his work]. View quote
James McNeill Whistler