The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. - Emily Post Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. - Thomas H. Huxley

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. - Russell Lynes

One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. - Russell Lynes

Miss Manners cannot think of a more succinct definition of a lady than 'someone who wants to punch another person in the nose, but doesn't.' - Judith Martin

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. - Gwen Raverat

The Word LADY: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes. - Fran Lebowitz

Lady n. ... (corresponding to gentleman, a woman of good family and good manners and some claim to social position; a woman with good manners and refinement in any class of society; a woman of any kind, whether of high or low social position or with or without good manners and refinement. (From the above it will be seen that the word has now become vague in meaning and is better avoided.) ... - The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, 1957

Lady, n. ... Woman belonging to, or fitted by manners, habits, & sentiments, for, the upper classes (corresp. to GENTLEMAN). - One of the meanings in The Concise Oxford Dictionary

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally. - Lillian Day

A lady is known by the product she endorses. - Ogden Nash

But the typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind. In contemporary society she is an archaism, and can hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. - Emily James Putnam


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