“She… can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
“She is not a subject.”
After claiming he could give a speech on any subject at a moment's notice, and being challenged by Lord Ribblesdale to talk about the Queen.
Quoted in The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (1908)
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm (1558)
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Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate