Ladies

Famous quotes containing the word ladies:

    “Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation’s leaders wouldn’t know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

    “The eleventh day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Eleven ladies dancing,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 76–78)

    “Vanity—has brought more virtues to an untimely end than any other vice.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 211 (April 1803)