Lady Quotes
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
Isaac Newton
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While learned ladies had always been present among the educated of nobility, and women had contributed to science and mathematics from earliest times, the "scientific lady" was a product of the Scientific Revolution.
Carolyn Merchant
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Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
Alan Bishop
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.
Ina May Gaskin
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You can't always be a leading lady.
Lauren Bacall
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The poems turned up everywhere. Soon the lady of the house went into fits of hysteria when she kept discovering this attack of poetry in the most unlikely places—under doors, in the mother-of-pearl latticework of windowpanes, under jars, stones, flowerpots, loaves of bread, and even delivered by homing pigeons, around whose rose-coloured claws the young matador lovingly wound poems in which he declaimed his love in the quaint language whose provenance was unknown to the world and still evoked images of the uninterrupted empires of Visigiths, the unbridled lust of the Huns and the intransigence of the Berbers. The young maiden recognized only a few words, but to her they were fragments of a secret music: zirimiri, fine rain; senaremaztac, husband and wife; nik behar diren guzian eginen ditut, I shall do everything necessary....
Eric Gamalinda
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Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.
Charlotte Bronte
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.
Elizabeth Marie Pope
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I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.
Virginia Hey
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I am not just some rich society lady…This is not about manicures and going out to lunch.
Nancy Brinker
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It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang.
Arnold Haultain
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
Jane Austen
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One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
Simone de Beauvoir
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Jane Austen
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I'd rather laugh in bed than do it. If I went to a lady of the night, I'd probably pay her to tell me jokes. Would that be perverted?
Billy Joel
