Chambermaid Quotes

#1. To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Dawn French

#4. Yugoslavian hotel: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. Turn to her straightaway.

Bill Bryson

#5. I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!

W.B.Yeats

#6. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.

Anne Fadiman

#7. Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Meg White

#8. I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.

Craig Lancaster

#9. By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one made impure. By oneself is evil undone, by oneself is one made pure. Each one is responsible for purity and impurity. No one can cleanse another.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Bob Dylan

#11. The way to fight shame and to honor who we are is by sharing our experience with someone who has earned the right to hear it.

Brene Brown

#12. Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Colin Powell

#13. I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

David Edelstein

#14. UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

Stephanie McMahon

#15. There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Ovid

#16. When we vote, when we talk to our friends about what matters to us, when we choose whose lives we pay attention to [in medicine], we are deciding what our future is going to look like.

John Green

#17. With stagnant wages and booming consumption, the cash-strapped American masses had a virtually unlimited demand for loans but an uncertain ability to repay them.

Michael Lewis

#18. Oh - go on, I'll take a breath or two - I don't know where I am, I'm all at sea. He

Mark Twain

#19. Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

Josh Billings

#20. My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.

Charles Dickens

#21. I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

Maureen Johnson