Top 37 Quotes About Dames
#2. People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
Edith Sitwell
#3. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Oliver Goldsmith
#4. He shook his head when he was in the elevator, going down. Dames were a mystery. He could solve cases but not women.
C.S. Montanye
#5. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
Herman Melville
#6. On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.
Matthew Arnold
#7. I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant.
Ron Moody
#8. We finally got around to processing the Queen's request to reinstate your bel dame status," Fatima said.
"What, twelve years later?"
"Bel dames are not known for the efficiency of their paper pushing.
Kameron Hurley
#10. To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?
Kris Waldherr
#11. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
Robert Burns
#12. Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?
Stephen Arnott
#13. Tea with a Chenjan. What was next? Ahmed thought. Dinner with bel dames?
Kameron Hurley
#14. These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.
Mercedes Lackey
#15. Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.
Frank Miller
#16. Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
Clark Gable
#17. Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed.
Kameron Hurley
#18. The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left.
"Ashes and earth will imprison the frail, blood of love will lift the veil," said the other.
J.A. Redmerski
#19. The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Women are just women." Mercia's forehead wrinkled. "Those women were bel dames.
Kameron Hurley
#21. Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
Martin Goldsmith
#22. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
Thomas Hardy
#24. Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.
John Grant
#25. I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.
Charlotte Rampling
#26. Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Thomas Otway
#28. One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
Mason Cooley
#29. I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#30. Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
Ara Parseghian
#32. Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation's necessary. Those who don't, no explanation will suffice.
Lou Holtz
#33. I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.
John Grant
#34. I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.
Jim Gaffigan
#35. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#36. She stared at him dully and said: "I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She turned to the outer door.
Dashiell Hammett
#37. Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.
Beano Cook
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