Maids Quotes - Page 3

• There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

  Fidel Castro

  Fall, Waiting, Smoking Cigars

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;
  Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
  Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The palm and may make country houses gay,
  Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
  And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
  Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
  In every street these tunes our ears do greet-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  Spring, the sweet Spring!

  Thomas Nashe

  Country, Sweet, Kings

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

  Thomas Campion

  Mother, Dies

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

  Joan Caulfield

  Stars, Character, Voice

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

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• I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Favorites Things, Toilets, Cleaning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

  Missy Elliot

  Sneakers, Too Much, Bedroom

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

  Julian Fellowes

  Secret, Looks, Courses

  "Gosford Park". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I'd rather play a maid than be one.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Play

  "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.

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• I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

  Diane Keaton

  Thinking, Garbage, Married

  "The regrets of Annie Hall" by Simon Edge, www.express.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Week

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  People, Want, Gestapo

  "Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, (p. 103), 1956.

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• Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

  John Waters

  Art, Critics, Ultimate

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Clever, Intellectual

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

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• I sat upon a promontory,
  And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
  And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
  To hear the sea-maid's music.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Stars, Sea

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

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• Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

  Peter Agre

  Mother, Support, Grandfather

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• I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Play, Determined

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• ...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

  Kate Morton

  Princess, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.495, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

  Rob Thurman

  Clothes, Sock, Knows

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

  Alison Croggon

  Wall, Men, Light

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• And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Desire, Her Beauty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

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