Duchess Maria

Duchess Maria may refer to:

  • Duchess Maria Christina of Teschen (1742–1798), Archduchess of Austria
  • Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
  • Duchess Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1857–1943), Infanta of Portugal
  • Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Leuchtenberg (1819–1876), President of the Imperial Academy of Arts
  • Duchess Maria of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736–1807), member of the British Royal Family
  • Duchess Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841–1925), last Queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Famous quotes containing the words duchess and/or maria:

    “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 (1874–1946)

    “Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)