Famous quotes containing the word ladies:
“That the townspeople might better see him, the President was persuaded to leave his carriage by the inducement that the ladies wished to get a look at him. By Gad, he repied, Id like to see your ladies, and alighted.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Prostitutes have very improperly been styled women of pleasure; they are women of pain, or sorrow, of grief, of bitter and continual repentance, without a hope of obtaining a pardon.”
—Anonymous, U.S. womens magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 85 (January 1804)
“When other Ladies to the Shades go down,
Still Flavia, Chloris, Celia stay in Town;
Those Ghosts of Beauty lingring there abide,
And haunt the places where their Honour dyd.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)