Quotes of: Duchess Keyword

Her,” he said. “I’ll take her.

Any Duchess Will Do

Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!

The Duchess War

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

The Duchess of Malfi

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

The Duchess of Malfi

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

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

The Duchess of Malfi

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

The Duchess of Malfi

If I weren’t a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now.” He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss the temptation.

The Duchess' Ring

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Any Duchess Will Do

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

[...] De toute façon, les hommes sont trop plates!' 'Tu les aimes, pourtant.' 'J'en ai besoin! C'est pas pareil!

La duchesse et le roturier

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

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Any Duchess Will Do

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Any Duchess Will Do

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Five Short Novels of Stendhal: The Duchess of Palliano, Vittoria Accoramboni, The Abbess of Castro, Vanina Vanini and The Cenci

The Duchess looked at Chloe with a look that said, How do I know that the Duchess's look said this? Because there is an excellent book in my local library entitled by Professor L. Stone. I digress.

Mr Stink

To order a wife by mail seemed strange to him indeed; so strange he could only open the letters in the confidential cloak of night, undisturbed by even the servants..." Lord Hartford's thoughts at the prospect of reading letters in response to his ad...

To Find a Duchess

I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my ...

Any Duchess Will Do

Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world different. She forced him to see things through fresh eyes. Suddenly his library was the eighth wonder of the world, and Corinthian columns merited blasphemy. ...

Any Duchess Will Do

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it y...

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated b...

The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother