Lady Quotes

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain

Old, Her, Bring

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

Made, Teach, Kissing

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West

Real, Imitation, Model

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen

Good, Stupid, Person

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
Frank Sinatra

What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher

Needs, Britain, Iron

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
Chris Brown

Mother, Treat, Taught

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher

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.
Jane Austen

Woman, May, Done

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Beautiful, Two, English

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.
Hillary Clinton

Yourself, Job, Difficult

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Love, Moment, Admiration

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.
Andy Warhol

Love, Money, Friend

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Truth, Her, She

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.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Night, Same

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin

Someone, Old, Become

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Stupid, Nothing

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
Steve Harvey

Wife, Woman, Give

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
Phyllis Diller

Said, Three, Fresh

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle Obama

Life, School, Nothing

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
Lady Gaga

Call, Name, Gaga

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos

Love, Time, Great

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.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Mason Cooley

Time, Sex, Care

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Variable

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner

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