Maiden Quotes

122 Maiden quotes by 98 unique authors

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this… — Naomi Wolf
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
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there.… — Paula Poundstone
How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a… — Ernest Bramah
`Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not sing one note… — Robert Fuller Murray
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just… — Bruce Dickinson
At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and… — Sun Tzu
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried… — George Eliot
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside. — Henry David Thoreau
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. — George Duke
Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then… — Colleen Houck
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,… — Adrian Mitchell
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of… — Donna Tartt
Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people… — Fannie Lou Hamer
Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is. — Ella Leya
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone. — Hafez

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