Maids Quotes

Maids Quote of the day

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 were dazzled!

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

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 a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

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 sons of night And maids who love the moon.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

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 be your servant Whether you will or no.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

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 quietly accept the fact.