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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution QUOTES

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution QUOTES

1 " ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

2 " such a short time. I am about to tell our barker, "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

3 " our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes! "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

4 " customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity, "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

5 " Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

6 " No Hapsburg princesse could legitimize a woman of unguarded morals. If du Barry had possessed any sense, she would have seen that she was the mistress of the past while Antoinette was the princesse of the future. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

7 " Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

8 " What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

9 " But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

10 " Things change, and not always for the better. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

11 " Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water? "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

12 " I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

13 " History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

14 " I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

15 " A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

16 " You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

17 " Let it be a reminder that nothing in this world can last."
"Even pain," I reply. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

18 " I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. —MARIE ANTOINETTE "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

19 " But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

20 " Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science. "

― Michelle Moran , Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution