Lady Quotes
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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.
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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.
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No lady she had had to do with had ever had such a thing on her dressing-table. Powder was different, because one needed powder sometimes for other things besides one’s face, and also one powdered babies, and they, poor lambs, couldn’t be suspected of wanting to appear different from what God had made them. But a lip-stick! Red stuff. What actresses put on, and those who were no better than they should be. Her mistress and a lip-stick—what would Miss Virginia say?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.
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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?
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A lady in PR told me I should wear a visor.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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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.
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The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
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A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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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.
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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.
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I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
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Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.
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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.
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The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
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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.
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An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
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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.
