I am Duchess of Malfi still.

I made a conscious decision after I did 'The Duchess of Malfi' at the Old Vic in 2012, when my daughter was six months…

— Mark Bonnar

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

— John Webster

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

— John Webster

“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where…

— Lewis Carroll

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

— Samuel Johnson

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Mac and cheese and pigs in a blanket with white fuckin' wine," he stated through his smile. "Is this duchess food?”

— Kristen Ashley

The enormity of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's global influence is daunting, especially for Kate, whose look is admired, copied, and analysed everywhere.

— Ingrid Seward

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But…

— Leonard Lauder

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the…

— Anonymous

“My Last Duchess That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now:…

— Robert Browning

It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage,…

— Anton Chekhov

“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook…

— Gillian Flynn

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

— Ramsay MacDonald

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that…

— Lewis Carroll