One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
~By George Eads ~
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
~By Al Capp ~
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
I don't want to die an old lady.
~By Edith Piaf ~
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
~By Adolph Green ~
I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.
~By Mary Crosby ~
I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.
~By Mike Epps ~
Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
~By Laura Bush ~
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
~By Edith Head ~
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
~By Henry Constable ~
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
~By Upton Sinclair ~
The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red" so that must tell you how great it must have been.
~By Diane Kruger ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
~By Sydney Biddle Barrows ~
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~By Mae West ~
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
~By Pat Nixon ~
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
~By Russell Lynes ~
I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.
~By Mary Teresa Norton ~
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
~By Marie Osmond ~
Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.
~By Amy Poehler ~
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
~By Berke Breathed ~
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
~By Kit Williams ~
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~By William Manchester ~
Some things a lady doesn't tell.
~By Kim Hunter ~
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
~By Dean Koontz ~
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
~By Bobby Orr ~
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
~By Janis Joplin ~
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
~By Charles Phillips ~
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
~By Matt Drudge ~
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~By Jane Austen ~
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
~By Prince Charles ~
Give the lady what she wants!
~By Marshall Field ~
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
~By Danielle Steel ~
They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
~By Owen Hart ~
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
~By Julie Andrews ~
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Luck, be a lady tonight.
~By Frank Loesser ~
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
I am an optimistic lady.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
~By Mark Twain ~
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
~By Vicki Lawrence ~
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
~By Andy Warhol ~
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~By Maude Adams ~
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.
~By Celia Cruz ~
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
~By Gene Simmons ~
I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
~By Larry Wilcox ~
Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
~By Buck Owens ~
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
~By Haley Barbour ~
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
~By Mother Jones ~
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
~By Billy Zane ~
And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
~By Charlize Theron ~
No lady is ever a gentleman.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
~By Gary Hart ~
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
I like to be treated as a lady.
~By Sharon Stone ~
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
~By Keith Miller ~
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
~By Jane Grey ~
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
~By Kit Williams ~
You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.
~By Doris Roberts ~
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
~By Bette Midler ~
My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
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