Lady, Lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one ...
Lady, lady, better run! Dorothy Parker



A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue. - John Randolph (attrib.)

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

When a lady's erotic life is vexed
God knows what god is coming next. - Ogden Nash

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. - Adlai E. Stevenson

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying,
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
- Dorothy Parker

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. - Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. - Herbert Spencer

I�d rather laugh in bed than do it� If I went to a lady of the night, I�d probably pay her to tell me jokes. Would that be perverted? - Billy Joel

A lady, if surprised by melancholy, might go to bed with a chap, once or a thousand times if consumed by passion. But twice, Wagner, twice ... a lady might think she'd be taken for a tart. - Tom Stoppard


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