Sad Eyed Lady

Famous quotes containing the words sad, eyed and/or lady:

    “Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “This morning, there flew up the lane
    A timid lady-bird to our bird-bath
    And eyed her image dolefully as death;”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)