Maidens Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Knowing, Bed

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

  Torquato Tasso

  Humble, Winning, Done

  Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria

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• Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

  Thomas Hardy

  Done, Hours, Possibility

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics

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• We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Player, Iron, Trying

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• The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Modesty, Truth Is

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Sweet, Women, Lying

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• Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

  Walter Scott

  Silence, Tongue, Outrun

  Sir Walter Scott (2014). “Ivanhoe”, p.80, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  Kalidasa

  Song, Flower, Moving

  Kālidāsa (1928). “Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works”

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• At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
  A fisherman stood aghast,
  To see the form of a maiden fair,
  Lashed close to a drifting mast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Sea, Aghast

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.39

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• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Good day, fair maidens.

  Val Venis

  Good Day, Superstar, Fairs

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• Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
  And many maiden gardens yet unset,
  With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
  Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
  So should the lines of life that life repair
  Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
  Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
  Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

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• 'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

  Penn Jillette

  Dog, Names, Wife

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

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• Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stepped, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears- 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.' -Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Colleen Houck

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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