Duchess of Newcastle-upon-tyne

Famous quotes containing the words duchess of and/or duchess:

    “Duchess of York. Good madam, be not angry with the child.
    Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)