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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
I am Duchess of Malfi still. -- John Webster
When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl. -- Gene Chandler
Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me. -- Ramsay MacDonald
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. -- Samuel Johnson
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory
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
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs. -- Brigid Berlin
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. -- Cleveland Amory
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 the Duchess of Windsor is dead. -- Leonard Lauder
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 what I was and what I gave them. -- Lillie Langtry
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 be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. -- Gertrude Stein
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 have been or could have been other than what you should have been. -- Lewis Carroll
Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess. -- Winston Churchill
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. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral. -- Jo Brand
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam. -- Terry Pratchett
My team name is the Duchess of Douchecockery.Yep, that's mine. -- Katie Aselton
Jack came whirling in like a little gay tornado with Duchess following him. -- P. C. Cast
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate. -- William Goldman
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
Of course it is,â?? said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; â??thereâ??s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that isâ?? â??The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours. -- Lewis Carroll
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! -- Coco Chanel
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. -- Coco Chanel
Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress. -- Mary Quant
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. -- John Webster
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
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, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork. -- Anton Chekhov
And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. -- William Butler Yeats
I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables. -- Sirio Maccioni
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: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did. -- Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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 shall say... -- Miguel de Cervantes

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