Austen Jane 1775-1817
Emma
With men be can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Milton John 1608-1674
‘L'Allegro'
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and judge the prize
Of wit or arms.
Raverat Gwen 1885-1957
Period Piece
Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves.
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
The young ladies entered the drawing-room
in the full fervor of sisterly animosity.
Tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm 1852-1917
(to females assembled to play ladies-in-waiting)
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
Anonymous
There was an old lady from Riga
Who rode with a smile on a tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
Anonymous
Passing By
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never a face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by
And yet I love her till I die.
Anonymous
There was a young lady from Kent,
Who said she knew what men meant
When they asked her to dine;
Private room, champagne, wine -
She knew what they meant and she went.
Aubrey John 1626-1697
Brief Lives ‘John Milton'
Oval face. His eye a dark grey. He had auburn hair. His complexion exceeding
fair - he was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.
Gay Noel 1898-1954
‘Leaning on a Lamp-Post'
I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street,
In case a certain little lady comes by.
Hart Lorenz 1895-1943
Babes in Arms
That's why the lady is a tramp.
Keats John 1795-1821
„La belle dame sans merci"
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child
Her hair was long, her foot was light
And her eyes were wild.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘Our Lady of the Snows'
A Nation spoke to a Nation,
A Throne sent word to a Throne:
‘Daughter am I in my mother's house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I abide by my Mother's House.'
Said our Lady of the Snows.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
„The Vampire"
A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
(We called her the woman who did not care)
But the fool he called her his lady fair -
(Even as you and I!)
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
‘Santa Filomena' (on Florence Nightingale)
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
Post Emily 1872-1960
The attributes of a great lady may still be found
in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity,
Sympathy, and Serenity.
Ransom John Crowe 1888-1974
‘Here Lies a Lady'
Here lies a Lady of beauty and high degree.
Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,
The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant
of three,
And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.
Richardson Samuel 1689-1761
Clarissa
It is more difficult to catch a bird than a lady.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Thatcher Margaret
The lady's not for turning.