Maids Quotes
179 quotes by 146 authors
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
— Honore de Balzac
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
— Josh Billings
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
— William Blake
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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid,…
— Jane Campion
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine…
— William Shakespeare
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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
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The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be…
— Anne Boleyn
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Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
— Martin Luther
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
— Joan of Arc
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Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
— Fanny Kemble
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I…
— Hiro Fujiwara
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
— Lana Turner
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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
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I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the…
— Karen Black
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I'd rather play a maid than be one.
— Hattie McDaniel
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I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
— Hattie McDaniel
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Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
— Hattie McDaniel
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Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.
— Groucho Marx
Who Wrote These Maids Quotes
146 authors contributed a total of 179 Maids Quotes, led by these top contributors: