Ladies

Famous quotes containing the word ladies:

    “Hear, ye ladies that despise,
    What the mighty Love has done;
    Fear examples, and be wise:”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “President Kennedy had a wholesome, widely discussed, and largely deserved reputation for his interest in women.... But no President, however young and energetic, could possibly have gotten around to all the ladies in Washington, New York, and Hollywood who made claim to his affections after he died.... Such was the force of Jack Kennedy and the manner of his death that anyone associated with him, even the pretenders, assumed added glamour and interest.”
    —Barbara Howar (b. 1934)

    “At no time in history ... have the people who are not fit for society had such a glorious opportunity to pretend that society is not fit for them. Knowledge of the slums is at present a passport to society—so much the parlor philanthropists have achieved—and all they have to do is to prove that they know their subject. It is an odd qualification to have pitched on; but gentlemen and ladies are always credulous, especially if you tell them that they are not doing their duty.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)