Dames Quotes

• I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

  Elaine Stritch

  Want, Littles, Kind

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• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Confidence, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

  Bette Davis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

  Frank Sinatra

  Treats

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• People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

  Edith Sitwell

  People, Virtue, Made

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 24), 1967.

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• 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

  Fishing, Hell, Ifs

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• If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

  Ed Koch

  Humorous, America, Rainbow

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• I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

  Rutger Hauer

  Eye, Blue, Looks

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• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, Life And Death, Pro Life

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• 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

  Sweet, Husband, Thinking

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Atheist

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• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Spirit

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• One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

  Charlie Pierce

  People, Disease, Tough

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• 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

  Children, Gay, Skills

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.222

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• O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
  "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Wife, Sound, Phrases

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• I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Dream, Thinking, Class

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

  Miranda Richardson

  Way

  "Miranda Richardson talks Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by Brian B., movieweb.com. June 02, 2005.

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• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  Dan Devine

  Next, Notre Dame Football, Coaches

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• Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

  Dick Cavett

  Comedy, Students, Should

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• I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

  Ethel Merman

  Character, Wonderful, Corny

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

  Tyra Banks

  Towers, Care, Louvre

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• You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

  Lou Holtz

  Notre Dame

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