Madame Marie

Famous quotes containing the words madame and/or marie:

    There was also a Nonne, a prioresse,
    That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;
    Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy.
    And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be executed is the idea of a fanatic.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)