Maids Quotes - Page 9

• When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

  Angela Lansbury

  Training, Instance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Tongue, Neat

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• ... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Girl, School, House

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
  [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Thinking, Hair

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• Though logic-choppers rule the town,
  And every man and maid and boy
  Has marked a distant object down,
  An aimless joy is a pure joy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Boys, Men, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

  Stephen King

  Years, Here I Am, Two

  Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• [The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

  Emily Giffin

  Honor, Necklaces, Maid Of Honor

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.232, Macmillan

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• Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

  Gorgias

  Philosophy, Men, Bed

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• Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Running, Husband

  Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?

  Natsuki Takaya

  White, Waiting, Costumes

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• And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

  George R. R. Martin

  Queens, Knights, Names

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• Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.

  Walt Disney

  Girl, Dream, Heart

  "Fictional character: Grand Duke". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Real, Giving

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• Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Wrong Man, Dies

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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.

  Thomas Campbell

  Writing, Wish, Sin

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Book, Phones

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  House, Robins, Littles

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• Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

  Emo Philips

  Baby, Giving Up, Writing

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Up Early, Wake Up

  "Country queen Dolly Parton insists she didn't have sex with anyone to become a star" by Kerry Harden, www.mirror.co.uk. April 27, 2014.

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• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Bears, Adultery

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• Fair maid, white and red,
  Comb me smooth, and stroke my head;
  And every hair a sheave shall be,
  And every sheave a golden tree.

  George Peele

  Beauty, Hair, White

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• Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Kings, Cupid

  William Shakespeare (1837). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”

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• Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Men, House

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• A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

  Nathalia Crane

  Laughter, Wall, Angel

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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