Lady Quotes
1592 Lady quotes by 1043 unique authors
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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes…
— Oscar Wilde
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She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and…
— Angela Carter
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Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
— John Berryman
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You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes…
— Haruki Murakami
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
— Charles Dickens
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Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up.…
— Nick Hornby
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Come, Lady, die to live.
— William Shakespeare
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You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
— Tamora Pierce
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They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the…
— Terry Pratchett
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I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was…
— Steven Wright
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There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a…
— Libba Bray
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Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled,…
— Shannon Hale
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The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.
— Paulo Coelho
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I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered…
— George Carlin
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It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of…
— Jessica Day George
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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown
— Julia Quinn
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...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how.…
— Lily Tomlin
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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…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This…
— William Goldman
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift…
— Dorothy Parker
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Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
— Terry Pratchett
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