Dukes Quotes

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People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

The bastards murdered half my family.

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

You managed not to get eaten then?

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!

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

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 also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

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.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament

When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

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.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.