lady:

1. Any woman . Rosalie Maggio in The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): '" Lady" defines women as ornaments or decorations rather than real people, as arbiters of both manners and morals, as members of some leisured class, as needing protection from real life , as "too good" or "too special" to "dirty their hands". (...) "Lady" is classist, condescending, trivializing, anachronistic, and oppressive. It has served to keep women on a tricky pedestal, in a neatly disguised servanthood - and out of the workplace .' In usage, both as an adjective and a noun, Rosdalie Maggio recommends: woman .

2. Courtesy title for a dominatrix , a female-dominant in BDSM sexual games. Courtesy titles such as countess , domina ; marquesa , lady, mistress , mistresse, princess , and queen , are usually followed by a name. Examples: Mistress Pain; Countess Storm.

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Quotes Containing lady:
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''m a good girl , I am.''
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''m a good girl , I am.''
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''m a good girl , I am.''
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''m a good girl , I am.''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) and lady taxi-driver (Joy Barlowe) in The Big Sleep (1946: - Lady: 'If you can use me again sometime, call this number.' - Philip: 'Day and night?' - Lady: 'Night's better. I work during the day.'
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): - Friend: ''Ah, Lady Lou, you''re a fine gal , a fine woman .'' - Lady Lou: ''One of the finest women that ever walked the streets .''
Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant) and his wife Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Elizabeth McGovern) in the mini TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998): - Sir Percy : ''The poets tell us love is blind .'' - Lady Blakeney: ''The miracle of marriage opens our eyes .''
''The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she is treated.'' Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964)
''The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she is treated.'' Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964)
The local sheriff and Susan (Katharine Hepburn) about David (Cary Grant) in Bringing Up Baby (1938): - The Sheriff: ''Oh! So he''s a lady-killer?!'' - Susan Vance: ''A lady-killer?! Why he''s a regular Don Swan. (...) He bops them over, one, two, three, boom. Just like that. He''s a wolf .''
''The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she is treated.'' Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964)
Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) and Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933) - Captain Cummings: ''Haven''t you ever met a man who could make you happy?'' - Lady Lou: ''Sure, lots of times.''
Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) and Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933) - Captain Cummings: ''Haven''t you ever met a man who could make you happy?'' - Lady Lou: ''Sure, lots of times.''
The First Lady, Larramie Royce (Jill Ireland) to secret service agent Jay Killian (Charles Bronson) if he?s falling in-love-with the first lady in Assassination (1987):''Killian, these are Italian shoes. They qualify as a lethal weapon . You lay one finger on me and you?ll get one in the southern-hemisphere .''
Thief and con man William Shaw (Matthew Modine) dancing with a richly bejewelled lady in Cutthroat Island (1995) - Shaw: 'I'm a medical man , a doctor.' - Lady: 'Oh, my! (...) With higher anatomy you must know a great deal about the human body.' - Shaw: 'Indeed, madam . Every bit of it . All the ins and outs. In medecine it is our obligation to probe to the very bottom of things. '
Lady Bracknell (Edith Evans) in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952):''A woman should never be really accurate about her age ; it looks so calculating.''
Michael O''Hara (Orson Welles) in The Lady from Shanghai (1948): ''It''s a bright, guilty world .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) about the women smile at rich Charlie Pike (Henry Fonda) in The Lady Eve (1941): ''See those nice store teeth all beaming at you.''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) to Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''Most men are the marrying sort..., poor devils .''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) to Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''Most men are the marrying sort..., poor devils .''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
Charlie Chong (Jan Gan Boyd) asking Jay Killian (Charles Bronson) if he''s falling in-love-with the First Lady in Assassination (1987): ''Are you falling for that bimbo?''
Charlie Chong (Jan Gan Boyd) asking Jay Killian (Charles Bronson) about his interest in The First Lady in Assassination (1987): ''Are your salmons swimming upstream?''
Bernie Dodd (William Holden) in The Country Girl (1954): ''They all start out as Juliets and end up as Lady Macbeths.''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'I'd prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .'
John Le Carr . Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy (1974): ''Faint heart never won fair lady .''
Lancelot (Richard Gere) in First Knicht (1995): ''I dare not kiss so lovely a lady . I have but one heart to lose.''
Missouri (Glenda Farrell) in A Lady for a Day (1933): ''I''m so hot I''m smoking. I need a man!''
Eve (Barbara Stanwyck) to Charlie/Hopsie (Henry Fonda) looking into her trunk full of shoes in The Lady Eve (1941): ''See anything you like?''
Lancelot (Richard Gere) in First Knicht (1995): ''I dare not kiss so lovely a lady . I have but one heart to lose.''
Bernie Dodd (William Holden) in The Country Girl (1954): 'They all start out as Juliets and end up as Lady Macbeths.'
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'I'd prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .'
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''d prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .''
Dorothy Parker: 'By the time you swear youre his / Shivering and sighing / And he vows his passion is / Infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: / One of you is lying.'
Philip Marlow (Robert Montgomery) to Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) in Lady in the Lake (1946): 'You got that 'I'm scared but it's wonderful' feeling?'
Athos (Van Heflin) to Lady de Winter (Lana Turner) in The Three Musketeers 'I loved you as I loved war and drunkenness.'
Dixie Daisy (Barbara Stanwyck) in Lady of Burlesque (1943): 'When I dress for a date with you, it will be a suit of armor and brass knuckles.'
Philip Marlow (Robert Montgomery) to Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) in Lady in the Lake (1946): 'Your lipstick is on crooked. '
Bernie Dodd (William Holden) in The Country Girl (1954): 'They all start out as Juliets and end up as Lady Macbeths.'
Dixie Daisy (Barbara Stanwyck) in Lady of Burlesque (1943): ''When I dress for a date with you, it will be a suit of armor and brass knuckles.''
''A grown man is no more than his family . Your kids, your old-lady , headaches maybe, but they''re who you are.'' Bailbondsman Ritchie Blumenthal (Eli Wallach) to Ralph ''Papa'' Thorson (Steve McQueen) in The Hunter (1980)
From Bulletproof (1997): Adam Sandler and Charlie , a hotel clerk: - Adam : ''What do you think? Me, you, the old lady? A little sandwich action.'' - Clerk: ''What do you mean?'' - Adam : ''Come on . You''re a piece of white bread , she''s a piece of white bread , I''m the salami ; let''s give it a shot.''
Judge (Ferdinand Gottschlak) and Rosie (Winnie Lightner) in Dancing Lady (1933): - The judge: ''Now, Miss Leroux, just what constitutes a strip-tease?'' - Rosette Henriette Larue: ''A good constitution and a couple of zippers.''
Judge (Ferdinand Gottschlak) and Rosie (Winnie Lightner) in Dancing Lady (1933): - The judge: ''Now, Miss Leroux, just what constitutes a strip-tease?'' - Rosette Henriette Larue: ''A good constitution and a couple of zippers.''
Charlie Pike (Henry Fonda) and Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) in The Lady Eve (1941): - Chalie: 'Lots of men are more careful in choosing a tailor than they are in choosing a wife .' - Jean: 'That's probably why they look so funny.'
Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) to the Board of Directors in The Magic Christian (1969): ''May I take a page from our late great Rudy the Kip Kipling? Let our Kipling speak: There was a young lady from Exeter / All the young men threw their sex at her / Just to be rude / She lay in-the-nude / While her parrot, a pervert , took pecks at her.''
In The Three Stooges comedy Booby Dupes (1945): - Lady: ''My! What a beautiful head of bone you have.'' - Curly: ''I bet you tell that to all the guys. ''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''Women are irrational. That''s all there is to that. Their heads are full of cotton , hay and rags . They''re nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags. ''
Louis Blore/King Louis XV (Red Skelton) chasing May Daly/Madame du Barry (Lucille Ball) around the room in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943): - Louis: ''Can''t you see I''m hungry for a kiss?'' - May: ''You''re just hungry .''
Louis Blore (Red Skelton) and his girlfriend in DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) - Girlfriend: ''You never look(ed) at me like that!'' - Louis Blore: ''You never looked like that,''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'Women are irrational. That's all there is to that. Their heads are full of cotton , hay and rags . They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags. '
Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984) about the word yard : ''By 1850 it had become obsolete. Yet the yard lives on in every man''s fantasy, though the details of the fantasy clash. We have the old adage, "Short and thick does the trick" (18thC), as well as Robert Burns''s "Nine inch will please a lady" while contemporary folk hyperbole immortalizes theman with a nine-inch pr**k and a twelve-inch tongue who can breathe through his ears. In our world , however, it''s the three-inch-fool (The Taming of the Shrew) who clearly is the rule.''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'Women are irrational. That's all there is to that. Their heads are full of cotton , hay and rags . They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags. '
''Excuse me, my dear, could I interest you in a little bite .'' Grandpa (Al Lewis), the vampire , offering lunch (his or hers?) to a young lady in The Munsters'' Revenge (1981)
'There was an Irish Lady to whose bust / I ne'er saw justice done.' Byron. Don-Juan (1819).
Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) and P.I. Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) in Lady in the Lake (1940). - Adrienne:''I wonder how it would be to discuss this over a couple of ice cubes? Would you care to try?'' - Philip:''Imagine you needing ice cubes.''
''Compared to him an elephant''s hide is tissue paper.'' Rosette Henriette Larue/Rosie (Winnie Lightner) about director Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable) in Dancing Lady (1933)
Cleo Borden (Mae West) staging an opera in Goin'' to Town (1935): ''I''m gonna sing Delilah . I''ve got a lot of respect for that dame . There''s one lady barber that made good.''
Cleo Borden (Mae West) staging an opera in Goin'' to Town (1935): ''I''m gonna sing Delilah . I''ve got a lot of respect for that dame . There''s one lady barber that made good.''
Beatrice (Lisette Verea) and Kornblow (Groucho Marx) and in A Night in Casablanca (1946): - Beatrice Reiner: ' Come on now. You wouldn't say 'no' to a lady .' - Ronald Kornblow: 'I don't see why not. They always say 'no' to me.'
Pirate Jamie Waring/Jamie Boy (Tyrone Power) and Lady Margaret Danby (Maureen O''Hara) in The Black Swan (1942): ''I didn''t know a woman could do this to a man , to make him itch to strangle her one minute and marry her the next.''
Pirate Jamie Waring/Jamie Boy (Tyrone Power) and Lady Margaret Danby (Maureen O''Hara) in The Black Swan (1942): ''I didn''t know a woman could do this to a man , to make him itch to strangle her one minute and marry her the next.''
In The Three Stooges comedy Booby Dupes (1945): - Lady: 'My! What a beautiful head of bone you have.' - Curly: 'I bet you tell that to all the guys. '
Charlie (Henry Fonda) and Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) in The Lady Eve (1941): - Charlie Pike: ''Are you an adventuress?'' - Jean Harrington: ''Of course I am. All women are. They have to be. If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural courses, you''d die of old maidenhood .''
Michael O''Hara (Orson Welles) in The Lady from Shanghai (1948):''Personally, I don''t like a girlfriend to have a husband . If she''ll fool a husband I figure she''ll fool me.''
'No, thank you. I never eat anything I cannot identify.' Juan Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery) to the stewardess offering him lunch in Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991) He then turns to the lady sitting next to him and ads: 'That's not entirely true, of course.'
'All right! If you're God reveal your godhead.' Lady Claire Gurney (Coral Browne) to Jack, the lunatic 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O'Toole) who believes He's God and unzips his fly to prove it in The Ruling Class (1972)
Jack Lemmon) to his neighbor Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) who spent the night with Maria Ragetti (Sophia Loren) in Grumpier Old Men (1995): - John: 'I don't believe it! You and that beautiful lady?' - Max: 'I am the thief of heart , I am the gangster of love .' - John: 'Gangster, hey? Well, tell me. Was it more of a hold-up than a stick-up?'

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