lady quotes

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Margaret Thatcher

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Phyllis Diller

“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

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Hillary Clinton

“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

“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

“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

“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