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Maids Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- 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…
- Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is…
- Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
- The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
More Maids Quotes
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — 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… — 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… — 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… — William Shakespeare
- Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the… — 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… — 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… — 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;… — Rudyard Kipling