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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• Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

  Clarence Day

  Weak

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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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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• 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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• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  Scott Putesky

  Kids, Iron, Different

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

  George Duke

  Mean, Journey, Sound

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• A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Long, Gone

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

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Institutions

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

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• When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Song, Writing, People

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

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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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• 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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• A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue

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

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

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Mistress, Riches

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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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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