Famous quotes containing the words madame and/or pompadour:
“Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father’s curse, mother’s moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Après nous le déluge.
[”After us, the flood.”]”
—Madame De Pompadour (1721–1764)