Maids Quotes - Page 7

• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Saws

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

  Jessica Biel

  Cute, Strength, Girl

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• If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

  Tim Gunn

  Labor Force, Pockets, Done

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• When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said, "I was just whispering in her mouth"

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Kissing, Wife

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• The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Games, Play

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• What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Lacking, Old Maids

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• Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Clever, Forget

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Ends, Matrimony, Deepest Love

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• Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Shepherds, Scorn

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.79

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• Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

  Alexander Pope

  Letters, Firsts, Taught

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.26

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• Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Waiting, Honor

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

  Janet Reno

  Men, Explanation, Attraction

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• Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

  St. Jerome

  Character, Mistress, Dresses

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strong, Character, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 532), 1895.

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• If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Children, Humility, Illustration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 123, 1895.

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• The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Curiosity, Tailors

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.404

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• Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sea, Victory, Ears

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

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• I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

  Jane Campion

  Imagination, Directors, Moments

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• The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Honor, Overcoming

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• Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Reason, Masters

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• The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

  John Dryden

  Blushing, Modest, Girlhood

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.191

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• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

  Euripides

  Mother, Husband, Heart

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• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Sports, Boys

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

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