The English have no imagination: and yet they do show…

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have…

— William Butler Yeats

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear,…

— William Hazlitt

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

— Tyne Daly

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

— Big Pun

“747s always remind me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried…

— Haruki Murakami

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and…

— Jane Jacobs

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

— Ben Elton

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

— Perry Brass

I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been…

— Nikki Giovanni

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

— William Faulkner

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and…

— Sara Gruen

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link…

— Karen Russell

Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.

— Ian Kelsey

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

— Milton Jones