A Fine Lady Quotes

#1. The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Thomas Hardy

#2. A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

George Eliot

#3. I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one ...

C.J. Cherryh

#5. Human feelings are queer things
I am much happier
black-leading the stove's
making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. It wasn't just coffee ... it was an experience. Smooth, roasted, buttery notes gave away to a velvet finish.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. That man has no shadow.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Lady Gaga

#9. To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Joseph Addison

#10. Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#11. Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

Bryan Procter

#12. What do you want?"
"Spain"
"Fuck!

Christopher Moore

#13. I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Suzanne Vega

#14. I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#15. He always says that,' muttered Vimes as the two men hurried down the stairs. 'He knows I don't like being married to a duchess.'
'I thought you and Lady Sybil-'
'Oh, being married to Sybil is fine, fine,' said Vimes hurriedly. 'It's just the duchess bit I don't like.

Terry Pratchett

#16. In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

Lois Greiman

#17. Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Pina Bausch

#18. Yeah, yeah," Wayne said. "That too. But if I could get everybody drunk, think how much happier this city would be." "So long as you get me drunk first, I'd be fine with it." She held out her cup to him. "Top a lady off, will you?

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Cormac McCarthy

#20. 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 he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

C.S. Lewis

#21. Alliteration is not a prostitute to be sold to every sailor who visits the port. This fine lady is a valuable literary diva one should ask to sing her aria only for special occasions.

Dennis Vickers

#22. He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#23. The other two entered the room. Vimes gave his men his usual look of resigned dismay.
"My squad," he mumbled.
"Fine body of men," said Lady Ramkin. "The good old rank and file, eh?"
"The rank, anyway," said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#24. A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Phyllis McGinley

#25. How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.

John Waters

#26. It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

Lisa Kleypas

#27. Besides that, she's a fine young lady."
"I'll be sure to remind her of that next time she starts yelling at us.

Lia Habel

#28. The Rats had a fine goalie, Big Ann, a lady dragon who fearlessly stretched herself to the limit anytime she blocked the ball.

J.M.K. Walkow

#29. Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Frank Muir

#30. I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#31. I can't work with people who aren't fun loving. I don't encourage such people.

Ravi Teja

#32. I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate. Celibacy's fine.

Lady Gaga

#33. You fell, she said, just remember you fell.
I fell, is all he told the doctors
in the big hospital. A nice lady came
and asked him questions but because
he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell.
He never said anything else although he could talk fine.

Anne Sexton

#34. Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood

#35. The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

Judy Horacek