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• My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new… — Jo Brand
• There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! — Coco Chanel
• Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try… — Lewis Carroll
• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. — Samuel Johnson
• Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
• Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the… — Elizabeth Hoyt
• Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the… — Mary Quant
• All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be… — Mary Balogh
• On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see… — Lillie Langtry
• It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save… — Horace Walpole
• Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. — Coco Chanel
• What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered… — Oscar Wilde

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