Breathless and bewildered like an old ladyat a busy intersection.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
On the State Dept under Cordell Hull. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean  Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man†. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.

-Aubrey,John
  Of Milton. Brief Lives (published1813),'John Milton'.

He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the ba'; And the bonnie Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a'. He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the glove; And the bonnie Earl of Murray, O he was the Queen's luve. O lang will his lady Look owre the castle Doune, Ere she sees the Earl of Murray Come sounding thro'the toun.

-Ballads
'The Bonnie Earl of Murray'.

TrueThomas lay on Huntlie bank, A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e, And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the EildonTree.

-Ballads
'Thomas the Rhymer', opening lines.

As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tother say, 'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?' 'In behint yon auld fail dye, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.'

-Ballads
'The Twa Corbies', opening stanzas.

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rareörare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Epitaph'.

'Mindandmatter,'saidthelady inthewig,'glideswift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  A Transcendental literary lady. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.34.

Grannie remarked that I might have the spirit of an Australian but I had by no means the manners of a lady.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.19.

The Lady's Not for Burning.

-Fry, C(harles) B(urgess)
  Play title, subsequently reworked by Margaret Thatcher in the form'The lady's not for turning'at the Conservative Party Conference,1980.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

-Gay,John
  Fables,'The Hare and Many Friends', l.41.

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street In case a certain little lady comes by.

-Gay, Noel pseudonym of  Richard Moxon Armitage
  Song sung by George Formby, featured in the film Feather Your Nest.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelistö I don't think she'd be missedöI'm sure she'd not be missed!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

For I have a song to sing,O!† It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   Jack Point's song, TheYeomen of the Guard.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
Collected in Complete Works (published1912).

Lydia theTattooed Lady.

-Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip)
   Title of song featured in the Marx Brothers film  At the Circus (music by Harold  Arlen).

  I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

-Hart, Lorenz
  'The Lady Is a Tramp' (music by Richard Rodgers), from Babes in  Arms.

   I hold my lady's head like a crystal and ossify myself by gazing: I am screes on her escarpments, a chalk giant carved upon her downs. Soon my hands, on the sunken fosse of her spine move towards the passes.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  North,'Bone Dreams', no.4.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Of Florence Nightingale.'Santa Filomena'.

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.

   A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love. Fair lady, will you any?

-Lyly,John
  Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.