Maidens Quotes - Page 6

• Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Kings, Three, Never Trust

  Mercedes Lackey (1989). “Oathbreakers”, p.221, Penguin

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• He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Reading, Knights, Together

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Adventure

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.182, A&C Black

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Love Is, Delicate

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.113, Penguin

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• Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Ignorance, Hands

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Lucky, Employment

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• Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

  Michael Crichton

  Beer, Ice, Drunk

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get away with a little more, although I know some people responded negatively to the Iron Maiden beat in the first movie where it looks like Edith.

  Cinco Paul

  Iron, People, Tunes

  Source: collider.com

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• Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Vices, Vice Versa

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• Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.

  Hans Bellmer

  Photography, Enthusiasm, Able

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• Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Interview with Mark Pytlik, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2005.

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• In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Daughter, Dream, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

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• Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

  Atsushi

  Falling In Love, Life Is Short, Tomorrow

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• I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.

  Dave Smalley

  Thinking, Rocks, Iron

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.

  A.M. Homes

  Husband, Father, Thinking

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.102, Granta Books

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• The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

  Roger Zelazny

  Battle, Thighs

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• I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Order, Years, Way

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book IV, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Modesty, Darts

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• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Men, Years

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472

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• Can rules or tutors educate
  The semigod whom we await?
  He must be musical,
  Tremulous, impressional,
  Alive to gentle influence
  Of landscape and of sky
  And tender to the spirit-touch
  Of man's or maiden's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Purple, White

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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