As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

I want to hear you cry out in pleasure again." "All you have to do is touch me.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.