Dukes Quotes

• People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

  Prince Philip

  Girl, Thinking, Class

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• A couple of years ago, I went to see a production of Wicked in San Francisco with a friend of mine, one that Patty Duke was in, and he said, "Do you want to meet her?" And I said, "Yeah!" And I went backstage, and she walked out of her dressing room, looked at me, and said, "I know you." And I went, "Well, uh, yeah, I was in My Sweet Charlie." And she said, "Yeah! You were the guy in the car on the road!" And I was. It was amazing.

  Brent Spiner

  Sweet, Couple, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Cities, Paris

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• How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

  Prince Philip

  Diamond Jubilee, Long, Tests

  "Prince Philip: His public life in gaffes", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2017.

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• What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

  Ernest Poole

  Towns, Kind, Crops

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• You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

  Prince Philip

  Long, Edinburgh, Classic

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• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

  William Cowper

  Church, Enough, Knows

  'Tirocinium' (1785) l. 403

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• You look like you're ready for bed!

  Prince Philip

  Bed, Edinburgh, Looks

  "Prince Philip's Best and Worst Public Gaffes Ahead of His Final Royal Engagement". Said in 2003 to President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, www.mirror.co.uk. August 02, 2017.

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• I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

  Prince Philip

  Russia, Edinburgh, Half

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• Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

  David Duke

  Country, Rights, Spending

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Edinburgh

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• We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

  Prince Philip

  Giving Up, Years, Next Year

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Pieces, Saxophone

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• A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Moving, Men

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.5021, e-artnow

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• When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

  Ruth Brown

  Applause, Stood Up

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Keys, Heaven

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• When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Science, Drawing

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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• If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

  Norman Granz

  Might, Combination, Ifs

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• Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

  Alec Baldwin

  Dukes Of Hazzard

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Morning, Giving, Making Love

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• I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

  Mose Allison

  Couple, People, Tunes

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• My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

  Dante Hall

  Team, Eye, College

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