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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.
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.
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.
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.
Neither you nor I nor anyone else can describe the volcanic landscapes a poor girl strays into when she marries a literary man.
Poor Little Rich Girl. 239
'Tisthemaddest fantasticalest girl.Inever knew somuch flesh and so much nimbleness put together.
Any man has to, needs to, wants to Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.
I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Oh, she's a splendid girl.Wonderfully pneumatic.
I can't get no satisfaction I can't get no girl reaction. 432
If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys.
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!'
Pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.
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.
So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something more with them besides think.
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.
Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
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.
Pray for the grace of accuracy Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination stealing like the tide across a map to his girl solid with yearning.
Boy Meets Girl in Winnipeg and Who Cares?
We are living in a material world And I am a material girl.
Why haven't Igot a real'home'a real lifewhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlI'm a woman. I want thingsall this love and joy that fights for outletand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.
The young girl stood beside me. I Saw not what her young eyes could see: A light, she said, not of the sky Lives somewhere in the OrangeTree.
Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between ushard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?
Since I was a little girl I always wanted to be Very Decent to People.Other little girls wanted to be nurses and pianists. They were less dissembling.
Flops are a part of life's menu, and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
A nice girl should only fall in love once in her life.
Are you sure you didn't forget yourself in the park? Positive.If I ever forget myself withthat girl I'd remember it.
To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthatof knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming-out ball?
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before, What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
The easy Eden-dreamtime then in a country of birds and trees made me your shadow-sister, child, dark girl I couldn't play with.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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