Lady Quotes
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To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
Elisabeth Elliot
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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
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The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
Courtney Milan
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People don't buy lady art.
Walter Keane
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A lady in PR told me I should wear a visor.
Brad Faxon
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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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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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An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
Connie Brockway
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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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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
Courtney Milan
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Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.
Evan Peters
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The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
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Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
Andre Tchelistcheff
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Instead of responding, he started looking more intently for the other corner pieces. Kendra could tell the comment had gotten to him. She decided not to tease him any further. The fact that he seemed scared of the lady he had met in the woods legitimized his story a lot. Seth had never scared easily. This was the kid who had jumped off the roof under the misguided assumption that a garbage bag would work like a parachute. The kid who had put the head of a live snake in his mouth on a dare.
Brandon Mull
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There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.
Ivana Trump
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Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.
Susan Holloway Scott
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There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.
William Cowper Prime
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
George Bernard Shaw
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
Ezra Pound
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I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
Anne Bronte