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A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. - Russell Lynes


Sun in Libra Women ... possess charm. In fact, it is very likely they can charm you into anything! ... Being beautiful is of the utmost importance to this lady; she is Venusian, has natural finesse, is desirable and makes a delightful hostess. If you want to win this lady, avoid coarseness. Appeal to her sense of justice of good, of beauty. - Sydney Omarr

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies. - Jonathan Swift

Lady, Be Good! - Ira Gerschwin (Title of musical, Music by George Gerschwin)

A lady is always grateful for a sincere compliment, so long as you don't try knock her down with it. - Mark Twain

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never a face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by
And yet I love her till I die. - Anonymous

It is more difficult to catch a bird than a lady. - Samuel Richardson

No lady is ever a gentleman. - James Branch Cabell

He injures a fair lady that beholds her not. - Thomas Fuller, M.D.

The Devil, having nothing else to do,
Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue.
My Lady, tempted by a private whim,
To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
Hilaire Belloc

Lady of Spain, I adore you.
Right from the night I first saw you,
My heart has been yearning for you,
What else could any heart do? - Erell Reaves

But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all? - Lord Byron

It means I'm growing old when ladies declare war on me. - Louis XIV

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

Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore. - Wilson Mizner

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?"
I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady. - Heinlein

A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on. - Fred Allen

With your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is your helper and accomplice. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. - Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Brought up in an epoch when ladies apparently rolled along on wheels, Mr Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves. - Aldous Huxley

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. - Dick Martin

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies. - Langston Hughes

This is the way the ladies ride. - Robert Chambers, The Popular Rhymes of Scotland

Three little maids who, all unwary,
Came from a ladies' seminary. - W.S. Gilbert

With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit of arms. - John Milton

Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound. - Ben Jonson


The Lady Jane was tall and slim,
The Lady Jane was fair. - Rev. R.H. Barham

If country loves such sweet desires gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain? - Robert Greene

And when a lady's in the case,
You know, all other things give place. - John Gay

He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. - John Aubrey (Brief Lives, 'John Milton')

Lady, when your lovely head
Droops to sink among the Dead,
And the quiet places keep
You that so divinely sleep;
Then the dead shall blessed be
With a new solemnity,
For such Beauty, so descending,
Pledges them that Death is ending,
Sleep your fill - but when you wake
Dawn shall over Lethe Break. - Hilaire Belloc

I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child
Her hair was long, her foot was light
And her eyes were wild. - John Keats


I got too hungry for dinner at eight.
I like the theatre, but never come late.
I never bother with people I hate.
That's why a lady is a tramp. - Lorenz Hart


Traveling in a fried-out combie,
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie,
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous,
She took me in and gave me breakfast,
And she said...

"Do you come from a land down-under?
Where women glow and men plunder,
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder,
--Colin Hay

Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you.
You have made me what I am and I am yours..
My love, there's so many ways I want to say I love you..
Let me hold you in my arms forever more..
You have gone and made me such a fool.
I'm so lost in your love..
And oh, we belong together.
Won't you believe in my song?.
- Lionel Richie Jr, lyric, Lady (1980)) -Kenny Rogers song


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