The standards of His Majesty's taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strai...n and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ermined and minked and Persian-lambed, Be-puffed (be-painted, too, alas!)... Be-decked, be-diamonded--be-damned! The Women of the Better Class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you ...boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitio...ns overlap but they almost never coincide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term... Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »