Young Ladies Quotes:

Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

- Jon Miller

topic: Kissing, Young, Young Ladies

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

- George Eliot

topic: Maggie, Vicissitudes, Young, Young Ladies

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Men, People, Needs, Young Ladies

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Time, Dating, Romance, Young Ladies

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

- Sallie Krawcheck

source: "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

topic: Girl, Math, Boys, Young Ladies

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

topic: Determination, Character, Interesting, Young Ladies, Haughtiness

I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Husband, Farewell, Europe, Cascade, Tumbling

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.6038, e-artnow

topic: Country, Children, Believe, Young Ladies

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

- Dennis Miller

topic: God, Stupidity, Four, Young Ladies, Referring

And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness

- Ezra Pound

topic: Song, Mean, Enjoy, Young Ladies

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.

- Ian Holloway

topic: Football, Men, Games, Young Ladies, Shirt Off

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?

- Raghad Hussein

topic: Children, Father, Taken, Young Ladies, Children Love

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

- Ian Holloway

source: "Gordon Strachan V Ian Holloway: Sportsmail Picks Their Top 10 Funny Quotes Ahead of Middlesbrough's Showdown With Blackpool". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 08, 2009.

topic: Football, Nice, Coffee, Young Ladies

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

- Diana Wynne Jones

source: Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

topic: Beautiful, Want, Young, Young Ladies

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

- Jane Austen

source: Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

topic: Writing, Aunt, Letters, Young Ladies

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.755, Ageless Reads

topic: Three, Foolish, Young, Young Ladies, Three Sisters

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.658, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Blessing, Love Is, Habit, Young Ladies

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.1902, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Balls, Lessons, Doe, Young Ladies

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.116

topic: Crime, Victim, Young, Young Ladies, Withered

He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Mother, Powerful, Father, Young Ladies, Piper Mclean

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

- Gail Carson Levine

topic: Young, Young Ladies

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.

- Anna Howard Shaw

topic: Nice, Thinking, Yesterday, Young Ladies

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

- Frances Trollope

source: Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

topic: Silly, America, Class, Young Ladies

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.

- M. E. W. Sherwood

topic: Daughter, Mother, Fashion, Wives And Mothers, Young Ladies

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

- Gloria Estefan

topic: Daughter, Years, Want, Young Ladies

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Strong, Love Is, Men, Perfect Love, Young Ladies

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Example, Excess, Globalization, Young Ladies

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Breathtaking, Young Ladies

I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter.

- Simon Weston

topic: Girl, Fashion, Children, War Zones, Young Ladies

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

- Drew Barrymore

source: "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

topic: Dancing, Playing Music, Down And, Young Ladies

One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Girl, Country, Baby, Unmarried, Unloved

My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Mother, Powerful, Practice, Young Ladies

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

- Mr. T

source: "Mr. T" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.

topic: Reading, Men, Keys, Young Ladies

If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.

- Tamsin Egerton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, People, Scripts, Young Ladies

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

- Carol Leifer

topic: Senior, Retirement, Time Flies, Do You Know, Young Ladies

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

topic: Attitude, Hate, Dirty, Hug You, Young Ladies

I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.

- Anne Bronte

source: Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.225, Diversion Books

topic: Believe, Young, Careful, Young Ladies

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

- James Farley

topic: Husband, Boys, Competition, Vendors, Young Ladies

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

- Coco Chanel

topic: Young Ladies

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

- Edward Lear

source: Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Food, Oil, Soup, Young Ladies

The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.

- John Lindsay

topic: Running, May, Faster, Young Ladies

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

- Alfred Hitchcock

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nice, Giving, Brave, Young Ladies

I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Smart, Interesting, Tasks, Ferguson, Organizer

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

- Lewis Carroll

source: 'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 7

topic: Kings, Hands, Hay, Young Ladies

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

- Booth Tarkington

topic: Law, Apples, Important, Young Ladies

Artemis must be present at the solstice," Zoe said. "She has been the most vocal on the council, arguing for taking action against Kronos's minions. If she is not there, the gods will decide nothing. We will lose another year of war preparations." Are you sugesting the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysis asked. Yes, Lord Dionysis." Mr.D nodded. "Just checking. Your right, of course. Carry on.

- Rick Riordan

topic: War, Years, Preparation, Solstice, Minions

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Mother, Book, Ifs And, Young Ladies

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

- Lloyd Alexander

topic: Daughter, Princess, House, Young Ladies, Being A Princess

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

- Gaston Leroux

source: Gaston Leroux (2014). “The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux”, BookRix

topic: Mother, Real, Artist, Young Ladies, Impressionable

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.56

topic: Agitation, Critical Moments, May, Young Ladies