Quotes of: First-lady Keyword

Jack Brennan: Well, in boxing, you know, there's always that first moment, and you see it in the challenger's face. It's that moment that he feels the impact from the champ's first jab. It's kind of a sickening moment, when he realizes that all those...

Frost/Nixon

Damiel: First, I'll have a bath. Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber who will massage me down to the fingertips. Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from headlines to horoscope. On the first day, I'll be waited upon... For requests, ask the nei...

Wings of Desire

First J.M. Inc. Customer: Now when you say that I can be somebody else, whaddya mean exactly? Craig Schwartz: Well, we mean exactly that. We can put you inside someone else's body, for fifteen minutes. First J.M. Inc. Customer: Can I be anybody that ...

Being John Malkovich

Education is a choice. We don't become educated by watching television, and we don't learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from pushing up against boundaries, from taking risks th...

Tom Walsh

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

A Clash of Kings

No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.

Candide

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Catch-22

Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.

The Deeds of the Disturber

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

The Devil's Stronghold

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Envy

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

To Find a Duchess

No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.

Fin & Lady

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

Fortune's Son

A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one....

Fortress in the Eye of Time

You can’t expect any woman to be a lady if you’re not being a gentleman, and vice versa.

Halton Cray

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

Howards End

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

Clockwork Angel