Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well ...as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Lady Mary Villiers lies Under this stone; with weeping eyes... The parents that first gave her birth, And their sad friends, laid her in earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My ancestors were all famous for military genius." My Lady smiled graciously. "It often runs in families," she remarked: "ju...st as a love for pastry does."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Utterly frozen is this youthful lady, Even as the snow that lies within the shade;... For she is no more moved than is the stone By the sweet season which makes warm the hillsLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare--rare it be;... And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when sh...e laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »