Best Maids Quotations
179 Maids quotes by 142 unique authors
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
— Alexander Pope
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Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
— Robert Herrick
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The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads…
— Rosie Perez
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I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
— Janet Reno
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Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
— St. Jerome
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If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do…
— Samuel Francis Smith
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The…
— John Dryden
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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As…
— Hartley Coleridge
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Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power…
— Thomas Campion
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Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.
— Thomas Campion
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I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting…
— Missy Elliot
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
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My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny…
— Vanilla Ice
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me,…
— Shirley Jones
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
— Charles Kingsley
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Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
— Denis Leary
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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor…
— Anna Quindlen
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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were…
— Marco Rubio
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My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and…
— Marco Rubio
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They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit…
— Marco Rubio
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
— William Shakespeare
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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
— William Shakespeare
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Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
— Sofia Vergara
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