“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.”
Cleveland Amory
“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!”
Lewis Carroll
“It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.”
Horace Walpole
“Spectators came from far away. The Queen of Camelot, the Duchess of Astor; the court architect, Philip of Glass (who has lately turned to stone); and the court's prose laureate, Brendan the Quill.”
Jonathan Larsen
“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
“Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.”
Angus McGill
“I would be somewhat surprised to see them come to Windsor.”
Anthony Faria
