Ladylike Quotes

• Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  People, Caves, Want

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• And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

  Wanda Sykes

  Thinking, Opposites, Comedy

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

  Harper Lee

  Change, Mouths, Want

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Folks, Knows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

  Felicity Jones

  Rocks, Looks, Chicks

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• Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Discipline, Parent, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

  Glenda Bailey

  Beautiful, Return, Lace

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• I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

  Michael Cunningham

  Beautiful, Different, Way

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

  Jenny Slate

  Thinking, Style, Comedic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Horse, Children, Work

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub

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• Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

  E. Nesbit

  Girl, Thinking, Ifs

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• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Knowing, Literature, Mockingbird

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• No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Matter, No Matter What

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

  E. M. Forster

  Shields, Insult, Room With A View

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know.

  Harper Lee

  Knows, Calpurnia

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

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• Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dirty, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Pretty Woman, Doubt

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• I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2014.

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• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  Cameron Russell

  Military, Color, Style

  "Model Cameron Russell Doesn't Pull Together Outfits, She Lets Them Collapse!". Interview with Melody Nazarian, www.popsugar.com. November 4, 2010.

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• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

  E. M. Forster

  Hands, Shields, Faces

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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• ...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eugenics, Light, Different

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.120, Routledge

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