Madame DeFarge Quotes in History of the World: Part I (1981)

Madame DeFarge: We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just this stupid accent!

Fellow Revolutionist: She's right, she's right! We all talk like Maurice Chevalier!

[impersonates the Chevalier laugh]

Fellow Revolutionist: Au-haw-haw.

Crowd: Au-haw-haw.

Madame DeFarge: We, the people of France...

Fellow Revolutionist: Fraunce.

Madame DeFarge: Fraunce...

[Madame DeFarge has come looking for Lucie and the child. Miss Pross bars her way out]

Miss Pross: Oh no you don't!

Madame Defarge: Let me pass.

Miss Pross: Never! I know what you want. I know what you're after. And thank heaven I'm put here to stop you - for stop you I will!

Madame Defarge: In the name of the Republic...

Miss Pross: In the name of no one, you evil woman. You've killed many innocent people. No doubt you'll kill many more; but my ladybird you shall never touch.

Madame Defarge: No? Do you know who I am?

Miss Pross: You might - from your appearance - be the wife of Lucifer; yet you shall not get the better of me. I'm an Englishwoman! I'm your match!

Madame Defarge: Pig, get out of my way or I'll break you in pieces.

Miss Pross: Break away, then. I don't care an English tuppence for myself; but I know that the longer I keep you here... the greater hope there is for my ladybird.

[they fight]

Madame Defarge: Do you know who I am?

Miss Pross: You might - from your appearance - be the wife of Lucifer; yet you shall not get the better of me for I'm an Englishwoman!

[the mercenary troops are marching through Paris]

Jacques ll6: How many thousands of these foreign soldiers are they bringing in?

Madame Defarge: It doesn't matter how many; it will do them no good.

The Vengeance: It will do them no good. Ha!

Madame Defarge: The starving people of Paris might wait a long time before rising up to fight French soldiers; but against hired, foreign troops... any day... any hour...

The Vengeance: Any minute!

Madame Defarge: You make a mistake when you call my husband Jacques, his name is Ernest. I don't want to make a mistake in your name. Are there two D's is Barsad?