“Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.”
Samuel Johnson
“Seems, madam!Nay, it is; I know not "seems".”
William Shakespeare
“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.”
W. C. Fields
“Madam, I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you; and so I know not what to call you; but howsoever, I thank you.”
Elizabeth I
“Madam, if you are so concerned about catching BSE, you should do what I do and turn vegetarian.”
Tony Benn
“Appellate Division judges [are] the whores who became madams.”
Martin Erdmann
