You may search my time-worn face,
You'll find a merry eye that twinkles.
I am NOT an old lady
Just a little girl with wrinkles!
- Edythe E. Bregnard

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. - Louis Nizer

People remember me most as a little girl with long golden curls. I don't want them to see me as a little old lady. - Mary Pickford

I think it well to remember that, when writing for the newspapers, we are writing for an elderly lady in Hastings who has two cats of which she is passionately fond. Unless our stuff can successfully compete for her interest with those cats, it is no good. - Willmott Lewis

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. ...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. - William Faulkner

From birth to eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five a woman needs personality; and from fifty-five on the old lady needs cash. - Kathleen Norris

We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much;
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd 'swop' for my dear old Dutch! - Albert Chevalier

The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. - Harold Ross

The nicest old lady I ever met. - William Faulkner on Henry James


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