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Maids Quotes by William Shakespeare
- 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…
- Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
- 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.
- Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
- Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel…
- Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have…
- And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she…
- Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my…
- Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and…
- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,…
- I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll…
- Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than…
- Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here…
- Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it…
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