Maidens Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

  Hafez

  World, Remember, Brides

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

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Mistress, Riches

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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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• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Mother, Money

  "On Location: Women of the Night". Comedy, 1987.

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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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• Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Book, Aunt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

  Eddie Trunk

  Kissing, Rocks, Iron

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• I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Iron, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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