Young Ladies Quotes

• Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Girl, Math, Boys

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

  Jane Austen

  Travel, Adventure, Village

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.437, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Mean, Sticks

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• Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

  Kate Morton

  Men, Attention, Handsome

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

  Booth Tarkington

  Law, Apples, Important

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.42, Booklassic

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• Artemis must be present at the solstice," Zoe said. "She has been the most vocal on the council, arguing for taking action against Kronos's minions. If she is not there, the gods will decide nothing. We will lose another year of war preparations." Are you sugesting the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysis asked. Yes, Lord Dionysis." Mr.D nodded. "Just checking. Your right, of course. Carry on.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Years, Preparation

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• Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Mother, Book, Ifs And

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• What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

  Lloyd Alexander

  Daughter, Princess, House

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• The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

  Gaston Leroux

  Mother, Real, Artist

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.4, e-artnow

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• Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

  Jane Austen

  Agitation, Critical Moments, May

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.56

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• Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus." Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.

  Rick Riordan

  Acting, Together, Trouble

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

  Chris Wooding

  Names, Once Upon A Time, Poison

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.206, Scholastic UK

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• Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Laughter, Work, Expression

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Christian

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

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• Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Opposites, Age

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

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• Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Down And, Conversation

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Long, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Giunti Editore

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• No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

  Jane Austen

  Dream, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.440, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

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• ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.

  Italo Calvino

  Beer, Cells, Smell

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

  C. S. Lewis

  Talking, Water, House

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• ...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Skills, Mystery, Young

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• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Sister, Wedding

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.8, Wild Jot Press

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• A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Voice, Tangled, Missing

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