quotes about Maids
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
-- Annie ProulxSource : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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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.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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.
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
-- Bill Condon -
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
-- Billy Sunday -
Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
-- Denis Leary -
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
-- Diane Keaton -
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If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.
-- Duncan Hines -
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine -
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
-- Elizabeth Bennett -
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Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
-- Hattie McDanielSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
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I'd rather play a maid than be one.
-- Hattie McDanielSource : "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.
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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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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.
-- Jane Campion -
I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.
-- Janet Reno -
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
-- Janet Reno -
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
-- John Dryden -
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
-- John Milton -
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If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
-- Julian Fellowes -
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 sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?
-- Kim Harrison -
I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.
-- Kristin Bauer van StratenSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
-- Mary BordenSource : Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”
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I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
-- Missy Elliot -
Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?
-- Natsuki Takaya -
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.
-- Phoebe CarySource : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
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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.
-- Reinhard HeydrichSource : "Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, (p. 103), 1956.
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Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.
-- Rob ThurmanSource : Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.13, Penguin
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
-- Samuel Richardson -
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
-- Samuel Richardson -
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
-- Sofia Vergara -
Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.
-- Thomas CampionSource : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
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Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.
-- Tim Bedore -
If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.
-- Tim Gunn -
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
-- William Blake -
I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag....
-- William Butler Yeats -
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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 -
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!
-- Red Buttons -
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.
-- Erwin PanofskySource : Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher (1997). “Three Essays on Style”, p.120, MIT Press
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