Lady Catherine Quotes

#1. Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.

Jane Austen

#2. Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:
She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

Janet Aylmer

#3. Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.

Jane Austen

#4. Tell me, Mr. Bennet, how can we amuse you during your visit? Do you hunt?" Lady Catherine was spooning her turtle soup, blowing delicately to cool it.
"I am certain an animal would sooner die of laughter than gunshot wound if I even made the attempt.

Karen V. Wasylowski

#5. And is this all?" cried Elizabeth. "I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter.

Jane Austen

#6. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!

Elizabeth Adams

#7. Poetry is life and life is poetry.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#8. At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.

Paulo Coelho

#9. In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within the palisade where she trained to take

Catherine M. Wilson

#11. The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Aristotle.

#12. Fair evening, Lady Pinkerton. I hope you enjoy satisfyingly deep breaths during your ride home." Part mortified, part despicably impressed, Catherine marched up the last step and slammed the carriage door shut.

Marissa Meyer

#13. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.

Katie Graykowski

#14. Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Tina Fey

#16. she's a lady, my lord. And you know as well as anyone that I am the furthest thing from being a gentleman you'll ever meet." Throughout

Catherine Gayle

#17. You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end ... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Newt Gingrich

#18. I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.

Catherine Martin

#19. Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.

Jason Marsden

#20. Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?

Jane Austen

#21. so far remained unbroken. Now my turn had come. In early springtime, when I was just sixteen, my mother took me to the house where she had won her shield so many years before. The Lady Abicel, long dead, had left her house and lands, along with her

Catherine M. Wilson

#22. The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone
Portent or promise
and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

Herman Melville

#23. The Substitution Principle tells us that wherever a value of one type is expected, one may provide a value of any subtype of that type:

Maurice Naftalin

#24. They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.

Michael Grant

#25. I'm not -
Lady Macbeth
Lucrezia Borgia
Catherine the Great. I am
- a woman doing what she has to do. I am
- the woman you made me.
Elena is at war.

Don Winslow

#26. Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Tori Amos

#27. I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around,

John McCain

#28. Catherine, people don't always live up to our expectations. Sometimes, they live up to their own.
From Our Lady of Stone, an unpublished play

Vanda

#29. My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales and drums. I can only recognize myself as symphony.

Fernando Pessoa

#30. There was a young lady of Lynn. Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw and fell in.

Catherine Coulter