Best Maids Quotes
179 Maids quotes by 142 unique authors
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Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent…
— Mark Krikorian
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When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I…
— Louise Redknapp
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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
— John Milton
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My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my…
— Julian Castro
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I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops…
— Eleanor of Aquitaine
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
— Bill Condon
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Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him,…
— Adrienne von Speyr
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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
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the…
— Fidel Castro
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,…
— Rick Bragg
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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what…
— Kathryn Stockett
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It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing…
— Unknown Author
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes…
— Polly Adler
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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple…
— Phoebe Cary
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid…
— Kathryn Stockett
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
— William Shakespeare
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Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for…
— Charles Lamb
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He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage,…
— Judy Grahn
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore de Balzac
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To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.
— Unknown Author
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