Maids Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, May, Marry Me

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

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• As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.

  Gail Carriger

  Vampire, Drones, Mouths

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• Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Summer, Song

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.967, Bantam

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• Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Hands, Brain, Mind

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• You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

  Karen Maitland

  Love, Fall, Men

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• My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Father, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr

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• When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Suicide, Real, Gun

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• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

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• On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Daughter, Kings, Queens

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• I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Deceit, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

  Edward Young

  Trust, Sea, Safety

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201

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• Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

  John Webster

  Husband, Poverty, Lovers

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• How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

  John Gay

  Simple, Flames, Play

  1728 The Beggar's Opera, act 1, sc.4, air 4.

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