Pastoral Resources

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

I am an optimistic lady.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.