James Goldman
Playwright
"I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!"
Maids quotes
Maids
86 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"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."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
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"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed."
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"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
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"Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid."
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"Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn."
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"Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine."
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"I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no."
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"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."
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"Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can."
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"Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid."
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"Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant."
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"The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes."
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"Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine."
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"Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid."
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"Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely."
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"Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich."
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"Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!"
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"Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible."
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"Faint heart never won fair maid."
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"Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria."
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