Dames Quotes
Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America
Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame
Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)
"The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 24), 1967.
Thomas Otway (1712). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes”, p.199