Lady Quotes

1592 Lady quotes by 1043 unique authors

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i… — E E Cummings
He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time… — Laurell K. Hamilton
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. — Sylvia Plath
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always… — Florence King
...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns… — Italo Calvino
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. — George Bernard Shaw
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to… — Susanna Clarke
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have… — Sue Monk Kidd
Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this… — C.S. Lewis
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may… — James M. Barrie
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow… — Winston Churchill
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i… — E E Cummings
...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. — Lloyd Alexander
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to… — Jane Austen
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth… — William Shakespeare
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention… — Charles Dickens
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot.… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
faint heart never won fair lady — Meg Cabot
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant… — Dorothy Parker
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom… — C.S. Lewis
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a… — C.S. Lewis

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