Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
~By Sydney Biddle Barrows ~
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 ~
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
~By Louis Nizer ~
I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.
~By Gina Gershon ~
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 ~
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
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 ~
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
~By Ken Kesey ~
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~By Cesar Romero ~
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 ~
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
~By Jane Grey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
~By Henry Constable ~
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Charles Revson ~
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
Being powerful 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 ~
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
~By Kit Williams ~
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 ~
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
~By Keith Miller ~
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
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 ~
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
~By Daisy Ashford ~
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
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 ~
I like to be treated as a lady.
~By Sharon Stone ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
~By Sam Houston ~
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
~By John Wilson ~
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'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.
~By James Woods ~
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Some things a lady doesn't tell.
~By Kim Hunter ~
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
~By Faith Hill ~
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
~By Mother Jones ~
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
~By Al Capp ~
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 ~
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
~By Brenda Holloway ~
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
~By Upton Sinclair ~
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
~By Tina Fey ~
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
~By Mark Twain ~
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
~By Joseph Force Crater ~
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
~By John Michael Hayes ~
When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
~By John Lone ~
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 ~
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
~By Chris Brown ~
Give the lady what she wants!
~By Marshall Field ~
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
~By Frank Muir ~
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
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 ~
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
~By Bette Midler ~
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 ~
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~By Jane Austen ~
I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
~By Anne Robinson ~
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 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.
~By Jay London ~
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
~By Claudia Johnson ~
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red" so that must tell you how great it must have been.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
~By Edith Head ~
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
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 ~
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