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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: "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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Maids   Faces   Exhausted  
    Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.
  • I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

    "Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting baby - news and reaction" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2012.
  • 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.

    Wine   Beef   Maids  
  • Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

  • 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 wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

    "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.
  • I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

  • My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

    Eye   Men   Swans  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Love   Cousin   Seductive  
    Elizabeth Hoyt (2013). “Duke of Midnight: Number 6 in series”, p.205, Hachette UK
  • You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  • Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

    "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".
  • You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

    Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com
  • 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 she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

    Knights   Feet   Kingdoms  
    Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.7, Penguin
  • Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

    Fashion   Dresses   Gone  
    Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”
  • Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

  • 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.

    Women   Phoenix   Mind  
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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 moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

    Moral   Duchess   Mustard  
    Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics
  • ... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

    Kings   Drinking   Hair  
  • I am Duchess of Malfi still.

    Duchess   Stills  
    'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 146
  • Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

    Ambition   Men   Madness  
    1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.
  • I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

    "Kate Middleton Gives First Foreign Speech In Malaysia" by Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2012.
  • 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.

    Princess   Night   London  
  • Before I found Minerva, I'd passed nights with more than my share of women." Thorne groaned. Don't. Just don't. "I've passed time with duchesses and farm girls, and it doesn't matter whether their skirts are silk or homespun. Once you get them bare--" Thorne drew up short. "If you start in on rivers of silk and alabaster orbs, I will have to hit you.

    Girl   Night   Rivers  
  • My team name is the Duchess of Douchecockery.Yep, that's mine.

    Team   Names   Duchess  
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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 shall say.

    Laughing   Duchess   Said  
  • I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

    Work   Thinking   Long  
  • My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.

    Hair   Blood   Hands  
  • Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

    1865 The Duchess. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.
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