Quotes About Josephine

Guys'?" Doucet asked. "I saw three members of l'Académie." "Um, Provost?" "Prévost?" "That's it." "I'll contact him. She also spent some time with Josephine Baker," Doucet offered.

you seem to find everything banal. it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find it applies to nearly everything.

I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

something?" "Relax," Lizzie said. "Granny never mentioned it. But she kept a scrapbook. She clipped all the newspaper articles about the disappearance of … what was his name again?" "Russell Strickland." As Josephine whispered the name, she

can get it all in one place . . . Dickens' Outfitters. Of course, my prices preclude

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.

before night,' as Nanny used to say of too exuberant children.

O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.

I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".

Aunt Josephine had been so careful to avoid anything that she thought might harm her, but harm had still come her way.

the famous ichnologist and Josephine's brother-in-law. But all that's ancient history.

This holiday mood of Napoleon's was almost a madness. He had appeared at dinner two nights ago dressed as the Pontiff and lewdly asked Joséphine how intimate she would like to be with God. I stared into the chicken.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

Varna hired Joséphine to star in the 1930–31 show called Paris qui Remue, or Swinging Paris, and he planned to alternate the years in which Mistinguett and Joséphine starred. Mistinguett objected strongly to the shared show. She also complained about the director's purchase

After finding no record of the marriage, French reporters doubted the story, but American papers picked it up with headlines proclaiming that a young black woman from St. Louis had become a countess. The June 22, 1927, issue of the Milwaukee Journal headlined: JOSEPHINE BAKER, BLACK DANCER, WEDS A REAL COUNT. They quoted

Joséphine as saying: "He sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything." This was good news for black Americans who still faced racial prejudice in the United States. Probably the most surprised person was Willie Baker, who read the story in the Chicago