Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

- Madame Roland

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

- Madame Roland

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

- Madame Roland

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

- Madame Roland

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

- Madame Roland

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

- Madame Roland

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

- Madame Roland

I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, enviou…

- Madame Roland

It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We…

- Madame Roland