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

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
Russell Lynes

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
Phyllis McGinley

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

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Charles Revson

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

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
Matthew Ashford

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
Charlize Theron

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.
Robert Grosseteste

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
Laura Bush

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Richard M. Nixon

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Maureen O'Hara

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
Pat Nixon

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

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

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