Maidens Quotes

• The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

  Mason Cooley

  Sage, Literature, Enlightened

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• A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1769). “The merchant of Venice ...”, p.39

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• Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Tyrants, Nurse

  Walter Scott (2001). “Ivanhoe”, p.109, Classic Books Company

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• It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Queens, Flower, Healing

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!

  William C. Bryant

  Heart, Men

  "Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask To Hear". Poem by William C. Bryant, 1832.

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• That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moon, Night, Fire

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Rose, Rue

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

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• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Meditation, Fancy

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Needs, Knows

  "Q&A: Iron Maiden's Dickinson looks 'Back in Time'". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.reuters.com. May 12, 2008.

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• For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

  Empedocles

  Boys, Sea, Bird

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• War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Kings, War

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.184, New Directions Publishing

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• 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Summer, Light, Brave

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”

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• Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hands, Organization, People

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Keys, Heaven

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

  Lord Byron

  Winning, Despair, Might

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Padlocks, Bars

  "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Circus, Cases, Capable

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• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Mistress, Riches

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• Her very frowns are fairer far
  Than smiles of other maidens are.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Love, Life

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.65

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• Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Age, Nine, Limits

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 5 (1955)

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• I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

  Cameron Diaz

  Iron, Poison, Courses

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Teens

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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