Quotes About Lady

May one ask at least to what darkness you are returning?… For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady…or for what paradise?

Any one who imagines ten days too short a time—not for falling into leanness, lightness, or other measurable effects of passion, but—for the whole spiritual circuit of alarmed conjecture and disappointment, is ignorant of what can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady's mind.

Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views, and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have the honor to coexist with hers. With

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

Come to me once more, and abate my torment; Take the bitter care from my mind, and give me All I long for; Lady, in all my battles Fight as my comrade.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

I think we agreed on the occasion of our first meeting that you were no lady at all.

The barman came to the other side of the counter.    Time please, he said.    Harriet said: You mustn't hurry a lady drinking a pint of beer. The effects might be fatal.

I ain't thinking of her marrying. I don't want her to marry; — not this man at least. And I fancy the Duchess of Omnium is just as likely to have scamps in her drawing-room as any other lady in London.

AT A PRIVATE ASYLUM IN the west of England there lives, and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady, as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewhere. Indeed, there is no one left belonging to her by whom the indulgence of such a hope on her behalf could be cherished. Friends she has none; and her own

I won't say that reading a novel on a Sunday is a sin," he said; "but we must at any rate admit that it is a matter on which men disagree, that many of the best of men are against such occupation on Sunday, and that to abstain is to be on the safe side." So the novels were put away, and Sunday afternoon with the long evening became rather a stumbling-block to Lady Laura.

Your brother has married a lady, and my daughter has married a gentleman. Yes; George is a great ass; in some respects the greatest ass I know; but he is a gentleman. Perhaps if you have anything else that you wish to say you will do me the honour of sitting down.

CHAPTER LIII LADY USHANT AT BRAGTON

Lady Eustace had been rather cross on the journey down to Scotland, and had almost driven the unfortunate Macnulty to think that Lady Linlithgow or the workhouse would be better than this young tyrant; but on her arrival at her own house she was for awhile all smiles and kindness.

CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS

Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.

Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?

No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain fever.

What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name, I take thee from the ground.

Beauty had just squatted under one of the chairs lining the hallway. A small trickle was creeping across the marble floor. 'She's too intelligent to pay mind to me,' Lady Sylvia said blandly. 'All three dogs are French, and they behave just like Frenchmen. Decorative but peevish.

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.

A concubine entices a man for the evening in exchange for coin," Stella mused. "A lady is supposed to entice a man as well, and she doesn't even get paid for it.