“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”
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film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989Related quotes
“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.”
Poem: Raja's Love Song
Jennifer Lopez shades A-list actress peers in resurfaced interview https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/jennifer-lopez-shades-a-list-actress-peers-in-resurfaced-interview/, by Nadine DeNinno, New York Post, September 25, 2019.
“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
“To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.”
First Week, Third Day. Compare: "It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother" Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book vii, Section 1.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
During his first show after the September 11th attacks (17 September 2001).
“When they and Venus to his cottage came,
For lust-rewards prefer'd the Cyprian dame.”
Book XXIV; the Judgement of Paris.
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)