niche quotes

Upon my honour, I saw a Madonna Standing in a niche Above the door of the private whore Of the world's worst son of a bitch.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
Jotted into the visitor's book ofWilliam Randolph Hearst's house at San Simeon after she had seen a Della Robbia Madonna over the entrance to Marion Davies's bedroom. Quoted in R Hughes Culture of Complaint (1994).

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