“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!”
Lewis Carroll
“Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains”
Russian Proverb
“We have won by a whisker, now we must begin to govern.”
Romano Prodi
“Earlier this week, we came within a whisker of multiyear highs for the S&P 500. But the market still has a lot of headwinds. We're still near the upper end of a trading range.”
Peter Boockvar
“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.”
Cleveland Amory
“SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."”
Ambrose Bierce
“It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.”
Horace Walpole
