Lola Montez quotes
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“I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.”
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“Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.”
-- Lola MontezSource : Lola Montez (1858). “The Arts of Beauty: Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet”, p.114
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“Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine.”
-- Lola MontezSource : "The Arts of Beauty".
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“I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.”
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“It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.”
Source : James Kern Feibleman (1978). “New proverbs for our day”, Horizon House Pubs
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“I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.”
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“Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.”
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“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”
Source : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.
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“Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.”
Source : Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.90, Tom Upton
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“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.”
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