Appearing Quote by Tony Benn

For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want…

— Alice-Leone Moats

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

— Elizabeth I

“They don't have to all be maidens." "Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly…

— Julia Quinn

“It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page.”

— Susan Glaspell

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly…

— Meryl Streep

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

— Frederic Farrar

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows…

— O. Henry

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

“Without Oliver Cromwell there might well have not been a Parliament to which Our Sovereign Lady might make her gracious address.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).”

— Dada Bhagwan