Top 35 Dowager Quotes
#1. But decent motives don't always produce decent results. And the body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood." ~the dowager
Haruki Murakami
#2. Wilhelmina swooned. The Dowager was stunned. Andrew punched Nathaniel again. "I should call you out!" He shouted over Nathaniel's prone form. Elinor fled the room.
Elizabeth Johns
#3. The necessity of getting up. He made it that far. Ended up with Banichi's arm around him, Banichi standing on one leg. The dowager-aiji said something rude about young men falling at her feet, and go sit down, SHE was in command of the plane.
C.J. Cherryh
#4. He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
Boris Johnson
#5. For another - you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager.
C.J. Cherryh
#6. Dowager grumbled a bit about that, using the same peevish
Julia Quinn
#7. Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)
Julian Fellowes
#8. How slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.
William Shakespeare
#9. An excellent servant is always present, yet rarely seen or heard. Much like a specter who happens to enjoy cleaning." - The Dowager Marchioness of Wallingham to her butler.
Elisa Braden
#10. 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
#11. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.
William Shakespeare
#13. And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.
Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.
- from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin
Julia Quinn
#14. My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.
Joan Rivers
#15. 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
#16. Violet, the Dowager Countess: 'I have plenty of friends I don't like.
Jessica Fellowes
#17. Five years with the dowager - Good God, she ought to be given a title in her own right as a penance for such as that. No one had done more for England.
Julia Quinn
#18. I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.
Allen Leech
#19. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
Eva Ibbotson
#20. So she will," said the Dowager. "You'll see that young man in the Cabinet before very long. Such a handsome couple on a public platform, and very sound, I'm told, about pigs, and that's so important, the British breakfast-table being what it is.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#21. By mid-June, the mercury had soared up to the nineties and lingered there, like a fat dowager in her favorite armchair.
Kat Ross
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. She inched forward, although she wasn't sure why. If the dowager started spouting off about the highwayman and his resemblance to her favorite son, it wasn't as if she would be able to stop her. But still, the proximity at least gave the illusion that she might be able to prevent disaster.
Julia Quinn
#25. Violet, the Dowager Countess: I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
Jessica Fellowes
#26. On a table behind the dowager stood a vase containing three white lilies. The flowers were large and fleshy white, like little animals from an alien land that were deep in meditation.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall into the latter category.
Sara Sheridan
#28. He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent.
Adam Levin
#29. I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.
Charles Busch
#30. Tell me, Mitch," said Bertrand, reading my thoughts, "is there anyone on this train that you do not want to fuck?"
"I'm not crazy about the dowager.
James Lear
#31. A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?" the dowager commented.
"Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has enough money and furnish his library with hundreds of books. He has already started a collection by stealing all he can find off lords and such.
Anya Wylde
#32. Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?
Empress Dowager Cixi
#35. Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.
Christina Dodd
