Top 86 Quotes About Being A Lady
#1. I stifled a laugh, not sure which was funnier: the idea of me being a lady o him being a gentleman.
Danielle Paige
#2. Being a lady does not require silence.
Betty Ford
#3. In the process of being a lady from a girl ... I understood that the White Knight, the Prince Charming and the Bad Guy are kind of same. You cant distinguish them by how they look or behave and often the Bad Guy has the better dressing sense.
Upasana Banerjee
#4. Leadership is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you're not.
Jim Sullivan
#5. Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
Joseph Conrad
#6. I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
Shelley Winters
#7. There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.
Diane Wakoski
#9. I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#10. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
#11. Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband's last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state.
Tamara Keith
#12. Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.
Mandy Hale
#13. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.
Mandy Hale
#14. Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
Karen DeCrow
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Her father had been a sailor. Her mother had been a siren. That particular relationship had worked out better than normal, with the sailor not being drowned then eaten, and Sharon had been the result, brought back to human civilization and raised to be a civilized young lady.
Larry Correia
#18. 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
#19. Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
Gloria Gaynor
#20. What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!"
~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
Lloyd Alexander
#21. Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
Anthony Trollope
#22. My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
Ursula Burns
#23. Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.
Virginia Woolf
#25. ... 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
#26. I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
Rolf Harris
#27. I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
Irene Dunne
#28. It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby ... it inspires him.
Ina May Gaskin
#29. For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing.
Lady Gaga
#30. Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can.
Jo Walton
#31. Lady Gaga is still a human being, she was still among us! But now, she's a little monster, she says. She does her face a certain way. It's pretty startling. But she's a great girl. She's cool from what I remember.
Kerry Rhodes
#32. I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'
Jennifer Hudson
#33. I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought by a clever, agreeable man, than have him driven away by the vulgarity of her nearest relations.
Jane Austen
#34. He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
L.M. Montgomery
#35. The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.
Edwina Currie
#36. Let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called form birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people.
Fanny Burney
#37. I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.
Patricia Finney
#38. 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
#39. And now you, young lady, may have learned the greatest lessons of all." Dr. Fuddle cherished the tender moment, watching the light dance in Christina's eyes. "It is a lesson I had to learn, too, that no handicap is too great to prevent one's voice from being heard.
Warren L. Woodruff
#40. Mr Wingham has the advantage of being on the premises. He and the young lady play duets after dinner, which acts as a bond. Mr Little on these occasions, I understand, prowls about in the road, chafing visibly.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
Lady Gaga
#42. 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
#43. I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. Never met such a Gorgon ... I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
Oscar Wilde
#45. Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Margaret Thatcher
#46. I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Mason Cooley
#47. I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
#48. My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery ... but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#49. The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
Ann Romney
#50. What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope ... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady Gaga
#51. Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
Lady Gaga
#52. I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.
Demetri Martin
#53. I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#54. Now you're being ridiculous. If your mom changed into a carrot, I'd think she'd change back before someone ate her, werewolf or not.
Jazz Feylynn
#55. Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
James Frey
#56. I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.
Lady Saw
#57. No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.
Ayn Rand
#58. I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.
Jenny Slate
#59. Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.
Lady Gaga
#60. My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.
Michelle Obama
#61. If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.
Tamsin Egerton
#62. I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
Simon Cowell
#63. I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady Gaga
#64. She cast Oliver a hard glance. "If one of us is arrested, we've all committed to being taken to the station." "Free." He rubbed his eyes. "Anna Marie Higgins - she's the lady over there in the sailor hat - she's been taken to the station thirteen times already.
Courtney Milan
#65. I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
Tanya Fischer
#66. The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look at the blood, but enjoys serving the calf up with sauce
Leo Tolstoy
#67. I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.
Maya Rudolph
#68. But my mom's going to hate being hated. she's a skinny beautiful lady with perfect hair; she's just not equipped to deal with hate.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
Lady Gaga
#70. First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
Karen DeCrow
#71. As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. Would that there were five of me, one for each child, so I might keep them all safe. - Lady Catelyn
George R R Martin
#72. Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama's cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and started being useful, like a whore.
David Burr Gerrard
#73. If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
Colleen Houck
#74. At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.
Conan O'Brien
#75. I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
Leonard Cohen
#76. Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
Lady Randolph Churchill
#77. A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
Penelope Keith
#78. You can't expect any woman to be a lady if you're not being a gentleman, and vice versa.
N.B. Roberts
#79. Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
Wayne Rogers
#80. Tessie and I lay in our chairs, listening to wax being violently removed. 'Oh my!' cried the large lady. 'Is nothing,' belittled Helga. 'I do it perfect.' 'Oweee!' yelped a bikini-liner. And Helga, taking an oddly femenist stance: 'See what you do for the mens? You suffer. Is not worth it.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#81. Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
J.P. Donleavy
#82. So she made no secret about being gay?"
"Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.
John Sandford
#83. Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady Gaga
#84. If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
Margaret Atwood
#85. Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.
Margaret Cavendish
#86. My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
Pauly Shore
