Old Lady Quotes - Page 2

• My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

  Tyne Daly

  Becoming One, Want, Very Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

  Louis C. K.

  Long Ago, Years, Two

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• ... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Practice, Kgb

  The Right Word (1996).

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• Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

  Agatha Christie

  Sweet, Taken, Mind

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• Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Artist, Simple, Media

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• One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.

  Mary Kingsley

  Running, Smell, Giving

  Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Hero, Missing, Feels

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• The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Two, Clothes, Imagination

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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• I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

  Lulu

  Past, Want, Next

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• Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Thinking, Anecdotes

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• That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Nature, Sky, Feet

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

  Stephen King

  Writing, People, Syntax

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• Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time. We need a new agency to make sure it doesn't happen again, Rush." And that was the excuse for starting Department of Homeland Security. The government grows and grows and grows and grows, and what do we get? Little old ladies wanded, scanned for bombs and weapons under their skirts next to the incontinence diapers. A bunch safer.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Agency, Government, Needs

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• Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.

  Warren Zevon

  Night, Evil, Littles

  Song: Werewolves of London, Album: Excitable Boy

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• I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

  Michel Gondry

  Sorry, People, Risk

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• Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

  Tim Krabbe

  Wish, Use, Few Friends

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• You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

  Ben Elton

  Fund, Pension, Bits

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• I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

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• How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Realize Things, People

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

  Brooke Astor

  Talking, People, Jewelry

  "Brooke Astor, 105, First Lady of Philanthropy, Dies" by Marilyn Berger, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2007.

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• When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned.

  Lee Haney

  Mean, Guy, Lines

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• There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Kids, Shoes, Uterus

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• The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

  William Faulkner

  Mother, Art, Responsibility

  Quoted in Paris Review, Spring 1956

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• My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

  Vivien Leigh

  Wise, Men, Talking

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