"I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family."
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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."
"Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel."
"If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
"You look like you're ready for bed!"
"You managed not to get eaten then?"
"Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?"
"It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good."
"I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband."
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
"The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises."
"Down with Dukes of Hazzard!"
"No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke."
"[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll."
"The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him."
"LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship."
"Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?"
"JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said."
"You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually."