Best Dames Quotes

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

You a lame so yo dame playin mind games;
I’m a pimp so I stay in that mind frame.

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill’d in gestic lore, Has frisk’d beneath the burden of threescore.

As soon as you see ‘Dame’ in front of someone’s name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

Dames lie about anything – just for practice.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks – please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

I didn’t really get into underground comics, though I’ve liked some of what I’ve seen. Dame Darcy was very impressive to meet, really talented. In general, I’ve always been more interested in searching out music, so I think I miss out on a lot of underground art.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.

Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

I went to Notre Dame. I don’t know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

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

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from ‘The Onedin Line’ to ‘Hedda Gabler’ with Dame Diana Rigg.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

I don’t know what my appeal is. I can see I’ve got blue eyes and don’t look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can’t understand the fuss.

Man, you’re a regular Bonnie Parker. A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. Jesse found that hysterical. Did Willie say that? Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt?

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn’t have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, ‘Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent… and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

There is nothing like a dame.

And there’s no way I’m going to do Dame Edna.

I’ve kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I’ve been in frigid cold weather, snow. I’ve kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I’m able to do.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn’t a problem because I don’t think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

Something big, … is about to happen at Notre Dame.

I’ve been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I’m here in good health, I’m stable.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It’s like there’s the cultural Catholic experience.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.