Maid Quotes

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. (William Wordsworth)
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. View quote
Lana Turner
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. View quote
Antonia Fraser
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. View quote
Jane Austen
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. View quote
William Blake
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork. View quote
Anton Chekhov
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich. View quote
Reinhard Heydrich
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Widowed wife and wedded maid. View quote
Walter Scott
And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. View quote
John Milton
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. View quote
Natalie Wood
I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself. View quote
Amy Weber
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.' View quote
Natasha Leggero
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. View quote
Shirley Jones
[Re Annabelle] ...she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is. View quote
John Updike
The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was. View quote
Edward Moore
I know of no well-directed attempts of this kind, except in the ancient family of the Bickerstaffs, who are said to have been very successful in whitening the skins and increasing the height of their race by prudent marriages, particularly by that very judicious cross with Maud, the milk- maid, by which some capital defects in the constitutions of the family were corrected. (Thomas Malthus)
The painter who loves his art is ruler in his own kingdom, even if he be in Lilliput and a Lilliputian himself. He transforms a kitchen maid in to a fairy, and a great lady into a brothel matron, if he wants to and sees them so, for he is a seer. His vision includes everything that is alive in the past. View quote
Georges Rouault
Three times the warrior has embraced the maid in his huge arms. View quote
Torquato Tasso
He maid thaim na gud fest perfay And nocht-forthi yneuch had thai. View quote
John Barbour
As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen; One praised her ankles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been. Cophetua sware a royal oath: "This beggar maid shall be my queen!" View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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