Famous quotes containing the word duchess:
“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 (18741946)
“If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Its 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 Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
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