Dukes Quotes · Page 2

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

— Edwin Edwards

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

— Winston Churchill

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

— Prince Philip

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

— Clark Terry

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

— Frank Ocean

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

— Tony Greig

I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke.…

— David Bromberg

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being…

— Daniel O'Connell

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

— W. S. Gilbert

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

— Robert Fabyan

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman,…

— Morley Safer

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being…

— Norman Granz

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be…

— Maureen O'Hara

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and…

— Robert Burns

It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in…

— Charlie Day

I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was…

— Lena Horne

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,…

— Joan Didion

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand…

— Christopher Moore

Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither,…

— Jonathan Swift

[Duke] is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask,…

— Scott Snyder

When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead…

— Christian McBride

Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize…

— William Shakespeare

October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was…

— Anonymous

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all…

— Charles Lloyd

A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but…

— Mike Posner

But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and…

— Galileo Galilei

It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a…

— Jessica Day George

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

— Aaron Staton

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

— Howard Fineman

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

— Ruth Brown

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

— Bryan Ferry

Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

— Prince Philip

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

— Brian K. Vaughan

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit…

— Jalen Rose