Madame Defarge: 10 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 The wives and mothers we have been used to see have not been greatly pitied.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

2 Her husband's destiny will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that is to end him. That is all I know.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

3 May I ask what it's for? -Pastime. -Not for use? -That depends. I may find a use for it one day, who knows. If I do, well, I'll use it.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

4 All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

5 You knit with great skill, Madame Defarge. -I am accustomed to it.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

6 A pretty pattern. -You think so? -Strange, too. It looks like many names knitted there, but that can't be. -No, that can't be.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

7 Madame Defarge? -Yes. -That she may be able to recognize the faces and know the persons. -It is for their safety.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

8 It is enough, my husband, that I have seen them. We may go.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

9 What is it that your husband says in that little letter? Influence, no? He says something about influence? -He says... -Perhaps it will release him.

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

10 Is it likely the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now?

Betty Garde in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)