There was a girl in our town, Silk an'satin was her gown, Silk an'satin, gold an' velvet, Guess her name, three times I've telled it.

-Anonymous
Quoted in  James Orchard Halliwell  The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). The answer, of course, is'Ann'.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody'.

Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great mountainous sports girl, Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five: That old Malvernian brother, you zephyr and khaki shorts girl, Although he's playing for Woking, Betjeman Can't stand up to your wonderful backhand drive.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Old Lights for New Chancels,'PotPourrifrom a SurreyGarden'.

   Neither you nor I nor anyone else can describe the volcanic landscapes a poor girl strays into when she marries a literary man.

-Cheever,JohnWilliam
  Letter to Frederick Exley,16  Jun.

   Poor Little Rich Girl. 239

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
  Title of song.

'Tisthemaddest fantasticalest girl.Inever knew somuch flesh and so much nimbleness put together.

-Dekker,Thomas
The Roaring Girl (with Thomas Middleton), act 2, sc.2.

Any man has to, needs to, wants to Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Sweeney  Agonistes,'Fragment of an  Agon'.

I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.

-Farjeon, Herbert
  The Picnic.

A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.

-Gabor, Zsa Zsa
Attributed.

Oh, she's a splendid girl.Wonderfully pneumatic.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Brave New World, ch.3.

I can't get no satisfaction I can't get no girl reaction. 432

-Jagger, Mick and Richards, Keith
  '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'.

If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys.

-King, BillieJean ne¤  e Moffitt
  Billie Jean King.

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

Pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsöit touches everything and covers nothing.

-Lawrence, Gertrude
During an after-dinner speech.  Attributed.

There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Attributed to Longfellow by Blanch Roosevelt Tucker Macchetta in The Home Life of Henry  W. Longfellow (1882).

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something more with them besides think.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.1.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4

So then he said that he used to be a member of the choir himself, so who was heto cast the first rock at a girl like I.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.5.