Dowager Duchess Quotes

#1. Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.

Dan Jones

#2. Even Sally wound't want to cross fans with the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. The woman had a tongue of steel and drank the blood of young virgins for breakfast.

Lauren Willig

#3. When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

Jerry Hall

#4. Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said.
"Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial."
"They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped.

Judith McNaught

#5. Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.

Suzanne Collins

#6. Naturally I am of the deeply felt conviction that it is quite nice, quite lovely to be capable of enthusiam.

Robert Walser

#7. I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Pierre Salinger

#8. Ghosts of the past still clutch at you in the present

Joanne Greenberg

#9. Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you.

Neil Gaiman