Quotes About Dames

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

The goggles were cool. Girls loved them. Or so the driver thought. In his mind's eye he saw himself as a grim-faced daredevil. Sprites were like that. Give a fairy a pair of wings and he thinks he's God's gift to women. But Chix Verbil's ill-fated quest to impress the dames is, once again, another story.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greetTo think how monie counsels sweet,How monie lengthened, sage advices,The husband frae the wife despises.

Messieurs, dit-il, vous admettez bien ceci, n'est-ce pas, c'est qu'arrivé à un certain degré de fortune il n'y a plus de nécessaire que le superflu, comme ces dames admettront qu'arrivé à un certain degré d'exaltation, il n'y a plus de positif que l'idéal?

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.

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.