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

  Frank Sinatra

  Treats

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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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• 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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• I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Saws

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

  Dan Devine

  Football, Pain, College

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• I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

  Regis Philbin

  Opportunity, Years, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

  Bear Bryant

  College, Alabama, Cows

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

  Dan Devine

  Next, Notre Dame Football, Coaches

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

  Dick Cavett

  Comedy, Students, Should

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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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