Dames Quotes

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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

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

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.

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

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

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

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!

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

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

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

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

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

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.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

There is nothing like a dame.

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.

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!

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

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.

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

Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

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

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

It had no affect on me whatsoever. Um... I consider Jay a very good friend of mine. I also consider Dame and Biggs very good friends of mine. With me not being a Roc-A-Fella artist, with me just being a friend of both and not being tied to them in the Roc-A-Fella situation, I was still able to maintain personal relationships with both of em.

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 have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

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

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.

I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who, forsooth, so often refuse to visit palaces, and deny a single smile to votaries in splendid studies, and gilded drawing-rooms--what holes and burrows will they frequent to lavish their favors on some ragged disciple!