Duchess Quotes
41 quotes by 31 authors
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all.…
— Jo Brand
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There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
— Coco Chanel
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might…
— Lewis Carroll
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
— Samuel Johnson
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Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her:…
— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would…
— Gertrude Stein
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Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.
— Mary Quant
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All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be…
— Mary Balogh
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On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for…
— Lillie Langtry
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It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
— Horace Walpole
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Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
— Coco Chanel
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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
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... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard…
— Russell Brand
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Jack came whirling in like a little gay tornado with Duchess following him.
— P. C. Cast
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the…
— Lewis Carroll
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I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that…
— Janette Rallison
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
— William Goldman
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When I’m a Duchess,†she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all.…
— Lewis Carroll
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