Devonshire Quotes

#1. I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, There's been a murder. I don't know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.

Andrea Heltsley

#2. (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her "feels" made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels

Sam Maggs

#3. To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

Tom Stoppard

#4. The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

John Sergeant Wise

#5. The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#6. I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

Michael Caine

#7. Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire

#8. You find out more of the type of person someone is when they are around someone in need

Amanda Penland

#9. The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Gene Mauch

#10. He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse.

Gillian Flynn

#11. I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Alice Walker

#12. He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

Stefan Zweig

#13. Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire

#14. The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ...

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire