I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And…

I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her…

— Julia Quinn

It's just fantastic to have someone like the Duchess of Cambridge wear the brand. I think there are often misconceptions about who the brand…

— Matthew Williamson

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess…

— Peter Trachtenberg

“We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry," cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly”

— Oscar Wilde

“At last, liveried in the costume of the age, reality entered the room in the shape of a servant to tell the duchess that…

— Oscar Wilde

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

— Oscar Wilde

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure…

— Oscar Wilde

“For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess,” said Lord Henry, with a bow.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The Duchess of Padua. by Oscar Wilde”

— Oscar Wilde

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