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Letter "O" » old woman
«Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.»
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
advanced, earthly, old woman, tame, uncontrollable, young woman
«When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter»
«War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep»
Author: Samuel Ha-Nagid
| About:
War
| Keywords:
flirt, flirting, flirts, flirt with, old woman, The Visitors, visitors
«Yeah [I'm thirty-six], but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
appealing, old woman, The Show, thirty-six, Thirty two, yeah
«Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!Biggles: Here they are, lord.Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?Biggles: Yes, lord.»
Author: Monty Python
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accused, cardinal, Cardinals, confess, counts, cushion, cushioned, cushions, deed, divulge, divulged, fetch, fetching, Ha Ha Ha, heinous, heresy, hurting, old lady, old woman, poke, poked, pokes, poking, previous, reject, stuffing, The Cardinals, The Works, ungodly, utterance, Wilde
«Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.»
«WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attractive, in league, league, League of, old woman, repulsive, the Devil, The Witches, ugly, wicked, wickedness, witch, witching, young woman
«There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.»
«The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper»
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