Bear Bryant
Football Coach
"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!"
Dames quotes
Dames
48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Connie Willis
Author
"I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie)."
Bette Davis
Actress
"I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived."
Frank Sinatra
Singer, Actor
"You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"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?"
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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!"
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"Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame."
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"I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection."
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