Top 100 Quotes About A Lady
#1. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#3. Learn to win a lady's faith
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely as for life and death -
With a loyal gravity.
Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#4. Rachel isn't a lady," he said as he shut the drawer with a bang. "She's a witch, rhymes with bitch, randy and ready.
Kim Harrison
#5. Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell
#7. Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished?
Crystal Woods
#8. [On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
Edith Roosevelt
#9. A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
Elizabeth Peters
#10. I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.
Denis Healey
#11. If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself
Nitin Yaduvanshi
#12. Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Sam Houston
#13. I am Asha of House Greyjoy, aye. Opinions differ on whether I'm a lady.
George R R Martin
#14. Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.
E. Nesbit
#16. If you offered me the chance to do it all over, knowing what I know now, after the things I've seen ... I'd shoot you in the head. That ain't the kind of thing you ask a lady. - Frances Brown
Seanan McGuire
#17. Men make this great pretense of not wanting to be caught, but in the end they usually beg for a lady's hand.
Elizabeth Boyle
#19. I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.
Arnold Palmer
#20. I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
Paul Anka
#21. A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
Russell Lynes
#22. Tsk-tsk. A lady never raises her voice above a gentle whisper." Every
Kiera Cass
#23. No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
#24. If you are going to replace somebody off of one of the bills - which I have no problem with a lady being on one of the bills - that you would replace the 20.
James Lankford
#25. When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope
James Joyce
#26. I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year
E. Nesbit
#27. A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar.
Eloisa James
#28. She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.
Anthony Trollope
#29. That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'
Bill Maher
#30. When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne Bronte
#31. From what I've come to know about you, my dear, you're a lady who embraces every venture with enthusiasm. I would have been very disappointed if you'd gone out on that court and not played the way you're apparently capable of playing.
Jen Turano
#32. Excuse me? You're a lady?"
"I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
Rachel Caine
#33. Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.
Tom Watson
#34. The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever".
Davina McCall
#35. Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.
Willa Cather
#36. I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem.
Caitlin Moran
#37. But a young lady should never try to gain a man's affections by flirting when she feels no attachment to him. It is wrong. I would not take it lightly if a lady did that to my brother, for instance.
Melanie Dickerson
#38. Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady."
"You are not asking."
"Aye.
Shelly Thacker
#40. There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
Rachel Roy
#41. One day she told the class, 'Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.'
Truman Capote
#42. A lady might feel fear, but she must not give in to it, or so her governess had taught her.
Theodora Goss
#43. Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
Lyle Lovett
#44. Clouds and Rain' is a Chinese euphemism for sex. 'The Bringer of Clouds and Rain' is a lady of the night, a prostitute,
Zahra Owens
#45. When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.
Brad Goreski
#46. My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.
Kerri Maniscalco
#47. I don't recall either of you asking me, you know I'm a lady and I need to be asked and agree to it.
Amanda Kelly
#48. Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.
Nancy Friday
#49. If a girl sees herself as a lady, she will expect her escort to behave like a gentleman. He will respect her if she respects herself.
James C. Dobson
#50. The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.
Janette Oke
#51. He'll let you go when you can comport yourself as a lady." I snorted. Like that would ever happen. "When Hell freezes over." At his arched brow, I flushed and amended my statement, "Again.
Eve Langlais
#52. Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.
Paul Anka
#53. But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
Bel Kaufman
#54. There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.
Stephanie Barron
#55. Manhandeling a lady was asking for trouble pretty much anywhere, but square in the middle of cowboy-central, it was close to suicidal.
Linda Lael Miller
#56. It was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.
Frances Trollope
#58. I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
Shelley Winters
#59. What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
Shirley Jackson
#60. 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
#61. I'll never hit a lady, but I'll slap a bitch.
L. H. Cosway
#62. A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man,
Daphne Du Bois
#64. The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.
Lin Yutang
#65. What makes you think you can stop me?"
"I'm a lady, and you're a gentleman."
He smirked. "Are you sure about that?"
"About which?"
"Either.
Jayne Fresina
#66. Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens
#67. Knowledge is always one of the fiercest of advantages a lady can have.
Heather Lyons
#68. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree soul.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#70. Dandy, Martin replied, once again pleased with his response. A girl can make a guy feel good, great, and even fabulous, but how often does a lady hear that her man is feeling dandy?
Not often, he guessed.
Matthew Dicks
#72. Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
Charles Phillips
#73. Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.
Gordon Donaldson
#74. There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.
Wilkie Collins
#75. A lady is known by the product she endorses.
Ogden Nash
#76. Strether had never smoked, and he felt as if he flaunted at his friend that this had been only because of a reason. The reason, it now began to appear even to himself, was that he had never had a lady to smoke with.
Henry James
#77. The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
Thomas Malory
#78. I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'
I said not particularly.
Harper Lee
#79. I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening.
Neil Gaiman
#80. The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
Mae West
#81. A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
Tina Brown
#82. 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 got her nose
in a book?
Granny Rudin
Florence King
#83. Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Prince Charles
#84. A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.
Chris Bosh
#85. 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 covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
Yeah, those are the words.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#86. A lady never shows her anger, she channels it to further her ends.
Erik Buchanan
#87. You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?
Harry Chapin
#88. I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.
Shannon Hale
#89. All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman
a lady
must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#90. If you show me a lady, I'll show you a gentleman; show me a bitch, and I'll show you a G.
K'wan
#91. I don't know that you would ever like him, or think him agreeable, Margaret. He is not a lady's man.' Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#92. And Ghastly became aware of Ravel's eyes, brimming with tears, those eyes that had many a lady swooning over him down through the centuries. Those golden eyes.
Derek Landy
#93. Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#94. A lady can always find the appropriate words for any occasion - Aunt Horatia
Amanda Quick
#95. 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 to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.
Alice-Leone Moats
#96. In his mind he vaguely pondered whether he should strike that long-legged Englishman in the face and call him a coward, or whether such conduct in a lady's presence might be deemed ungentlemanly, when Marguerite happily interposed.
Emmuska Orczy
#97. There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
Art Donovan
#98. ... a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper
a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make
everybody more or less uncomfortable.
Charles Dickens
#99. A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
Anna Godbersen
