Maid Quotes - page 4

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. (Kathryn Stockett)
I'm a real Kentish maid, you know. View quote
Jo Brand
... The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?" "Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt-a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom. View quote
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Fruitlessly doth he groan, beholding the face of the Colchian maid; then over all the mountain pain contracts his limbs, and all his fetters shake beneath her sickle. View quote
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
To hell with the fate that makes you share a man... You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone. View quote
Hồ Xuân Hương
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. View quote
Agnes Smedley
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. View quote
Dario Argento
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. View quote
Edna Ferber
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. View quote
Jane Campion
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. View quote
Julian Castro
I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this? (Kim Harrison)
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. View quote
Karen Black
When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! View quote
Louise Redknapp
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless! View quote
Mireille Guiliano
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. View quote
Thomas Nelson Page
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid. View quote
Peter Agre
Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid. View quote
Groucho Marx
Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair Hippopotamine maid. The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade: Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud. View quote
Michael Flanders
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. View quote
Thomas Campbell
How beautiful is youth how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes. (William R. Alger)
You have lost a good friend. It is unfortunate. In return, you got a maid and a drunken driver. They are in, and we are out. View quote
Devyani Khobragade
She fell as falls the rose in spring, The fairest are ever most perishing, Yet lingers that tale of sorrow and love, Of the Christian maid and her Moslem love; A tale to be told in the twilight hour, For the beauty's tears in her lonely bower. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He sung,-the notes at first were low, Like the whispers of love, or the breathings of woe: The waters were hushed, and the winds were stay'd, As he sang his farewell to his Lesbian maid! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One moment he is at her knee, "So, Leila, wouldst thou weep for me ?” Started she, as at lightning gleam,- "O, Mirza, this I did not dream! Moslem and Moor, may Spanish maid Hearken such words as thou hast said?”. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon