Maids Quotes

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

  Charles Kingsley

  Sweet, Clever, Slacker

  "A Farewell" l. 5 (1858)

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• Faint heart never won fair maid.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fairs

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• The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Wife, Men And Women

  Samuel Richardson (1748). “Clarissa”, p.258, Рипол Классик

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

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Want

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Tea, Scandal, Old Maids

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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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• 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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• 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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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, December, April

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

  William Blake

  Ugly, Action, Rich

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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• In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

  Bill Condon

  Black, Hollywood, Economy

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• Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

  Tim Bedore

  Language, Should, Hotel

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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 was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Names, Parent

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• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Dog, House

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• RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ruins, Belief, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Demand, Occupation, World

  1849 Shirley, ch.22.

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• Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

  Robert Browning

  Mother, Men, Wife

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• 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.

  Anton Chekhov

  Faces, Exhausted, Study

  Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

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• A maid that laughs is half taken.

  John Ray

  Taken, Laughing, Half

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.10

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