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Quotes About Lady

Well, perhaps she had a little of his pride. She'd certainly found plenty when he was making her sound like some lofty lady who couldn't live without "fanciful creatures of sugar paste" to decorate her birthday cake.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
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
She sits on the iron throne She is one and three The dark lady the redgold lady The blank lady oracle of blood, she who must be obeyed forever Her glass wings are gone She floats down the river singing her last song
~ Margaret Atwood
Sir, she said, you are no gentleman! An apt observation, he answered airily. And you, Miss, are no lady.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
~ Truman Capote
Well then, he said, 'I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites. Just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond; the ears were laid back, and the eye looked rather ill-tempered. This was a tall chestnut mare, with a long handsome neck; she looked across to me and said, So it is you have turned me out of my box; it is a very strange thing for a colt like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home.
~ Anna Sewell
I thanked the interesting old lady and I now know that so-called interesting men owe their reputation to their looks alone.
~ Anne Frank
Apparently too much candour can become tedious, or so Lady Emma tells me.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This was all just a game to you, wasn't it, princess? 'Come, Zarek, sit on my lap. Tell me why you won't behave.' (His vision turned dark. Deadly.) Fuck you, lady, and fuck them. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, Lord Debonair and Lady Lethal, if we can have a minute of your time, we do have a psycho to hunt. (Allen) (Jess glared over his shoulder at Allen, but before he could comment, Syra shot another bolt from her crossbow. Allen went flying and landed flat on his back in the snow. Syra walked over to him and stared down.) I don't particularly like Squires and I really hate the Blood Rites. So save yourself some pain and don't speak to me again. (Syra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.
~ Jon Anderson
This Lady Pauline," he began, "she must be a fearful person. She sounds like a terrible sorceress." His face was deadpan, but Will sensed the underlying amusement and replied in kind. "She's very slim and beautiful. But she has amazing power. Some time ago, she persuaded Halt to have a haircut for their wedding." Malcolm, who had noticed Halt's decidedly slapdash hair styling, raised his eyebrows. "A sorceress indeed.
~ John Flanagan
And when a lady's in the case,You know all other things give place.
~ John Gay
you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
~ John Geddes
You have power, lady, and that power is of interest to my Queen. As it is to the one who holds my esteemed counterpart's leash.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Say what you would about the Crown Investigator; she was a lady who could hold her liquor. She chortled at the thought: most unladylike, which made her laugh the more.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
~ Elizabeth Peters
So, you're the small troublemaker who foiled Saturday's Cocigrue, said Lady Friday. Leaf, a friend of the so-called Rightful Heir , this Arthur Penhaligon. How kind of you to visit.
~ Garth Nix