Top 100 Quotes About Ladies
#1. The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#2. Ladies, it's almost midnight. And I, for one, hoped not to have to resort to kissing Gaspard when the clock strikes twelve.
Amy Plum
#3. Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."
Kumi Naidoo
#4. And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness
Ezra Pound
#5. 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
Kate Burton
#6. Ladies and dogs," said Jeffrey, "we are about to perform 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Seal.' " "With apologies to Aaron Copland,
Jeanne Birdsall
#7. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
#8. Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very comfortable in fashion. She's happy to mix high and low, and she loves emerging designers. That will do nothing but good for our industry.
Anna Wintour
#9. Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.
Idi Amin
#10. Limousines with liveried chauffers delivered earnest ladies to the picket lines, sometimes in strikes against businesses which helped pay for the limousines.
Eugene Lyons
#11. That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
Jane Austen
#12. I like to be comfortable. And I think men tend to dress more comfortably than ladies. They can just put on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, and I like doing that. Comfort first.
Alice Dellal
#13. Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.
Agatha Christie
#14. For directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend.
Charles Dickens
#15. The ladies perhaps had the advantage in the sheer size of
Mary Balogh
#16. I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single?
Will Estes
#17. Don't make trouble at the pub tonight, Wayne," the man intoned in response. "My temper is really short." "Temper?" Wayne said, passing him. "That's a funny name for it, mate, but if the ladies like you givin' silly names to your body parts, I ain't gonna say nothin'.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. Won't I be showing?" Libby fretted, looking from Julie to Paige. "Looking like a pillow smuggler in my wedding dress wasn't part of the fantasy, ladies.
Linda Lael Miller
#19. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#20. I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.
Christopher Parker
#21. It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
Johnny Vegas
#22. Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.
E. M. Forster
#23. -Why do southern men have bug trucks?
-So we look like gentlemen when we help ladies out of them.
Bernadette Marie
#24. Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awaken dead young ladies.
Susanna Clarke
#25. What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy.
Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They were ladies who were always reading books. They even read them aloud.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.
Michael Douglas
#27. Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.
Julie Garwood
#28. I hope you realize that you really hit it off with the ladies? You must cultivate that. It could take you far.
Guy De Maupassant
#29. When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.
Michael Douglas
#30. I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who don't follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.
Rila Fukushima
#31. There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.
Paul Zindel
#32. Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
Bob Riley
#33. Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.
Greg Proops
#35. I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.
Jane Austen
#36. I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
Paul Westerberg
#37. Garra's got a way with the ladies," the Plazma wannabe announces with a wink. "So do I - it's a bass player thing.
Sarah Ockler
#38. Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
#39. ALLY: Ladies, listen: do not settle in life.
Find a way to love yourself; screw anyone else who tells you otherwise.
Life is too short to simply sit back and take what's given to you.
LeTeisha Newton
#40. 14) Ladies, if a guy leaves you a voice mail that says 'I had a good time with you' what he REALLY means is 'I had a good time with you.' Ladies, please stop searching for secret meanings in what we say. We're men; we're not that clever.
Nelson Chereta
#41. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
Milan Kundera
#42. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy
#43. Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever.
Deborah N. Kabwang
#44. Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
Oliver Reed
#45. You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.
Gini Koch
#46. Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
Jennifer Weiner
#47. I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
David Nicholls
#48. Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.
Nelly Kaplan
#49. Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something.
Majorie Hillis
#50. She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
Fanny Burney
#51. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -
Virginia Woolf
#52. Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first"
"Yes"
"Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!
Terry Pratchett
#54. Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if he didn't want you to shake 'em.
Cynthia Rhodes
#55. All of the First Ladies were good, creative and strong. I've always said they should be paid.
Letitia Baldrige
#56. I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
Queen Victoria
#57. I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.
Geraldine Page
#58. With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
#59. I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
Norman Mailer
#60. How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
Hannah More
#61. It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.
Charlie Day
#62. I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.
Big Pun
#63. Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#64. If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens
Lily Allen
#65. Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding to their influence in society by conferring on them the right to vote for members of the legislature.
James Francis
#66. Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
Harper Lee
#67. I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Anna Kournikova
#68. Blood tricked down Molly's neck from the stinging cut Justine had given her. She thought, dear lords and ladies, all I want in the whole wide world is a bath, a pina colada, and the chance to stake this bitch in the heart.
Thea Harrison
#69. But they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all purseymouthed and ooo, don't slip on that icy patch, Mildred.
Stephen King
#70. She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#71. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#72. Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear.
Terry Pratchett
#73. He could not, in good conscience, promote any association with Daisy Green and her band of ladies. He could more easily recommend gang membership or fence-hopping into the polar bear enclosure at the Regents Park zoo.
Helen Simonson
#74. Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course ... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
Steve Coogan
#75. I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.
Rachel Hawkins
#76. The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!
Elisa Paige
#77. Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.
Gregory Maguire
#78. New York ladies all look immaculate.
Zac Posen
#79. Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins ... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.
Janeane Garofalo
#80. True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#81. Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
#82. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.
David Arnold
#83. 747s always remind me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried up neckline. The airport, a likely gathering place for the old ladies. Dozens of them, coming and going, one after the other.
Haruki Murakami
#84. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.
Mary Stewart
#85. Ladies have come up with all these expressions to reassure men. "Oh, honey, it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean." That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat.
Jeff Foxworthy
#87. I feel sorry for high school teams still named the Cougars. Now what does the coach say? Get out there and play like horny old ladies!
Dana Gould
#88. Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
John Barbirolli
#89. Ladies, set your standards high. Never lower them.. The day you do, you will get less then what you deserve.
Every woman, deserves to be treated like a queen with respect. It's better to be single and fabulous on your own then to be in a relationship that isn't what you always dreamed of.
Erica Maples And Stefany Terherst
#90. I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.
Mark Salling
#91. Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
Phyllis Schlafly
#92. Harry. That's not how one talks to young ladies in the South.
Jim Butcher
#93. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Paul Ryan
#94. Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.
Marcel Proust
#95. Arthur narrowly avoided tripping over his own skirt as he hurried out of the ladies' powder room in full pursuit.
Graham Moore
#96. Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.
Linda Howard
#97. With her head on his shoulder, Jean Louise was content. It might work after all, she thought. But I am not domestic. I don't even know how to run a cook. What do ladies say to each other when they go visiting? I'd have to wear a hat. I'd drop the babies and kill 'em.
Harper Lee
#98. Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
Lin Yutang
#99. My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant. Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist but you lovely bitches and hos should know I'm trying to correct this.
Flight Of The Conchords
#100. First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.
Margaret Truman Daniel
