Dame de Paris

Famous quotes containing the words dame and/or paris:

“I have a lot of respect for that dame [Delilah]. There’s one lady barber that made good.”
—Alexander Hall. Cleo Borden (Mae West)

“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)