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Dames Quotes

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

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

Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

"Fictional character: Mark McPherson". "Laura", www.imdb.com. 1944.

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

"The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 24), 1967.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Thomas Otway (1712). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes”, p.199