Maids Quotes

• As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Want

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• Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

  Charles Kingsley

  Sweet, Clever, Slacker

  "A Farewell" l. 5 (1858)

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• Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Color, Gentleman, Age

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Tea, Scandal, Old Maids

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• Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong, Faithful, Servant

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Destiny, Bent, Temper

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• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Destiny, Swag, Sorrow

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.88, tredition

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• When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

  Louise Redknapp

  Song, Thinking, Singing

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

  Karen Black

  Cancer, Thinking, Careers

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• Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  People, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”

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• Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Money, Player, Cards

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wedding, Men, Numbers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

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

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• 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.

  Antonia Fraser

  Fun, Class, Matter

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• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Ballet, Shade

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Friendship, Two, Acquaintance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912). “The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1199, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Interesting, Perspective, Wonder

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• Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

  Charles Lamb

  Women, Wife, Lovable

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• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  Lana Turner

  Girl, Men, Saint

  "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles". Book by Jon Lewis, April 19, 2017.

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• Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

  Martial

  Lying, Mean, Two

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.55

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