Maids Quotes

179 quotes by 146 authors

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
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. — Josh Billings
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. — William Blake
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
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
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
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
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
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. — Martin Luther
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
Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. — Fanny Kemble
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
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
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
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
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
I'd rather play a maid than be one. — Hattie McDaniel
I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid. — Hattie McDaniel
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
Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid. — Groucho Marx

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