Top 40 Handmaiden Quotes
#1. Raise thy head, Handmaiden of Orion, thou has borne thyself well thus far.
Robin Jarvis
#2. and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with
L.M. Montgomery
#3. In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.
Israel Shenker
#4. The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.
Philip Johnson
#6. Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
James Carroll
#7. Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
#8. Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
Mark Twain
#9. Jane shared his sentiment, but was hard-pressed not to laugh at her husband's inventive turns of phrase - her favourite was "goat-licking amateur," followed closely by "mongrel's handmaiden.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#12. Now is the time!" Ysabelle cried. "Now do I accede to the throne and claim my place as Handmaiden to Orion!
Robin Jarvis
#13. Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Alexander Cockburn
#15. She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.
Edna O'Brien
#16. I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life, and I have let my annoyance drive that duty from my mind. It will not happen again.
Robin LaFevers
#18. The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
Dorothea Dix
#19. Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.
Hannah Hurnard
#20. I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.
Joan Larkin
#21. Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Vernor Vinge
#22. My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
Andrew Wyeth
#23. Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. Eliot
#24. Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow
sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.
Richard Grossinger
#25. Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
Stanley Fish
#26. Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
W. H. Auden
#27. Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.
Nora Gallagher
#29. Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
Ravi Zacharias
#30. It's not all peeling grapes, being a handmaiden," said Ptraci. "The first lesson we learn is, when the master has had a long hard day it is not the best time to suggest the Congress of the Fox and the Persimmon. Who says you have to do anything?
Terry Pratchett
#31. Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Albert Scott Crossfield
#32. I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you."
"The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?"
"A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.
Renee Ahdieh
#33. Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if
L.M. Montgomery
#35. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
#36. Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.
Jack London
#37. When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
John Wesley
#38. The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.
What about love? Where does that fit in?
Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.
Peter Milligan
#39. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.
Rita B. Dandridge
#40. Life is not a thing of knowing only
nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
Learned Hand
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