I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose
enough to show you're a lady. - Edith Head

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet... - Lady Montagu

See that lady
Dressed so fine?
She ain't got boogie-woogie
On her mind--
- Langston Hughes, "Lady's Boogie"

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress; within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. - Joseph Addison

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty upset, if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her. - Ogden Nash

It is an amazing thing to see in our city the wife of a shoemaker, or a butcher, or a porter dressed in silk with chains of gold at the throat, with pearls and rings of good value....and then in contrast to see her husband cutting the meat, all smeared with cow's blood, poorly dressed.... but whosever considers this carefully will find it reasonable, because it is necessary that the lady, even if low born and humble, be draped with such clothes for her natural excellence and dignity, and the man be less adorned as if a slave, or a little ass, born to her service. - Lucrezia Marinella, The Nobility and Excellence together with the Defects and Deficiencies of Men (1600)

She by my Lady's advice desires a new petticoat of the new silk striped stuff very pretty. So I went to Pater Noster Row presently, and bought her a very fine rich one - the best I did see there, and much better than she desires or expects. - Samuel Pepys, Diary

An after-dinner speech should be like a lady's dress---long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. - R.A. Butler

Father told me if I ever met a lady in a [very low-cut] dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. - Charles Windsor, Prince of Wales

Two yards of veil won't make any woman a lady
nor a hat make any head worthy of command. - Padeshah Khatun (fl. 14th Century)

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my red chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved . .. the Iron Lady of the Western World! Me? A cold war warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of values and freedoms fundamental to our way of life. - Margaret Thatcher, Speech at Finchley, 31 Jan. 1976


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