Fine Lady Quotes:

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen

topic: Women, Hate, Independent, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

- Thomas Hardy

topic: Heart, Hands, Perfect, Fine Lady, Perfect Woman

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

- George Eliot

topic: Squirrels, Air, Delicacy, Fine Lady

A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Beautiful, Believe, Names, Villa, Fine Lady

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.190

topic: Essence, Ideas, Mind, Fine Lady, Shocked

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

topic: Passion, Thinking, Gentleman, Fine Lady

I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.459, Dell

topic: Boys, Joy, Goats, Randy, Fine Lady

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2014). “The Penelopiad”, p.38, Faber & Faber

topic: Dark, Blue, Water, Fine Lady

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

source: Mary Mapes Dodge (1875). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.59

topic: Church, Sometimes, Fine, St Nicholas, Fine Lady