Famous quotes containing the word duchess:
“Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“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)
“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)
Related Phrases
Related Words