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Quotes About Lady

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.
~ William Shakespeare
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
~ Isaac Newton
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
~ Anne Sexton
She lacked those colder qualities that carry the Lady Melbournes of this world securely to prosperity. Too soft-hearted, too ungoverned, she could not take a firm line with herself or anyone else.
~ David Cecil
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
~ Margaret Halsey
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.
~ Jay London
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
~ Voltaire
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day
~ Alison Krauss
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
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'
~ Jimmy Carr
...heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
~ Joe LaFlam, My Fear Lady
I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.
~ Georgia May Jagger
I am on Team Drunk Lady, obviously.
~ Jami Attenberg
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~ Jane Austen
The articles said variously that the code had been cracked by "FBI cryptographers" or "a check with the Navy." Hoover himself wrote about the Doll Lady in The American Magazine, calling her "one of the cleverest woman operators I have encountered. Cultured, businesslike, cunning, and, despite her 45 years of age, most attractive
~ Jason Fagone
I had flashbacks of being in the peep-show booth hours earlier, watching the Puerto Rican woman dance naked. I couldn't believe I'd enjoyed looking at that pear-shaped drug addict when I was living with such a beautiful lady.
~ Jason Starr
wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.
~ e e cummings
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
~ e. e. cummings
Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile, shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you, that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite ease the poem which i do not write.
~ E.E. Cummings