Famous quotes containing the words duchess of, duchess and/or richmond:
“Duchess of York. Good madam, be not angry with the child.
Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan’s new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don’t, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)