“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”
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Bette Davis36
film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989Related quotes
“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
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.”
Daljit Nagra (1966) British poet, teacher and broadcaster
Poem: Raja's Love Song
Jennifer Lopez (1969) American singer and actress
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.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
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.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
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)
David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor
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.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XXIV; the Judgement of Paris.
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)