Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or duchesses:
“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster—but there is only one Chanel!”
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971)