Handmaids Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the… — Margaret Atwood
• You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
• Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be… — William Buckland
• Science and art are the handmaids of religion. — Francois Delsarte
• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with… — Karl Pearson
• Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. — Calvin Coolidge
• The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with… — Leonard Ravenhill
• For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch
• Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain
• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not… — Andre Malraux
• I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann
• Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell
• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so… — Conor Oberst
• His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. — George R. R. Martin
• Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back… — George William Curtis
• The past has always been the handmaid of authority. — J. H. Plumb
• A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. — Thomas Brooks

Who Wrote These Handmaids Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Handmaids Quotes as follows:

• 2 Handmaids Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Francois Delsarte
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Thomas Brooks
• 1 Handmaids Quote by William Buckland
• 1 Handmaids Quote by James A. Garfield
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Karl Pearson
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Calvin Coolidge
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Leonard Ravenhill
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Thomas Bulfinch
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Andre Malraux
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Horace Mann
• 1 Handmaids Quote by James Russell Lowell
• 1 Handmaids Quote by Conor Oberst
• 1 Handmaids Quote by George R. R. Martin
• 1 Handmaids Quote by George William Curtis
• 1 Handmaids Quote by J. H. Plumb