Jonathan Aitken (1942) Conservative Member of Parliament, former British government Cabinet minister
As quoted in A Balance of Power (1986) by James Prior, p. 107.
Speech to CWCC, London (April 2013)
Jonathan Aitken (1942) Conservative Member of Parliament, former British government Cabinet minister
As quoted in A Balance of Power (1986) by James Prior, p. 107.
“Then let him swear he ne'er the lady knew,
And did with her as men with women do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIX
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
1992.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”
Daisy Ashford book The Young Visiters
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 12
Gangubai Hangal (1913–2009) Indian singer
Shardaprasad, in "On Gangubai Hangal by Sabina Sehgal Computer Science & Engineering - University of Washington".
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Cyprus Avenue
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”
Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool
Source: The Hippopotamus Pool
“A lady … with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Concerning a child actress in A. A. Milne's play Give Me Yesterday; in her review of same, "Just Around Pooh Corner" in The New Yorker (14 March 1931)
“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5