Top 100 Maid Quotes

#1. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.

Sue Monk Kidd

Maid Quotes #975
#2. When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

Angela Lansbury

Maid Quotes #3492
#3. I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Daniel Woodrell

Maid Quotes #7295
#4. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'

Frank Crowninshield

Maid Quotes #10743
#5. My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

Judy Reyes

Maid Quotes #12919
#6. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.

Edith Hahn Beer

Maid Quotes #18065
#7. Deuce, the maid of honor died at your wedding," Ty said.
"Well, I didn't kill her," Deuce argued.

Abigail Roux

Maid Quotes #24893
#8. At his next visit he fancied he must have got into a narrow needlecase, full of sharp needles: "Oh," thought he, "this must be the heart of an old maid;" but such was not the fact;

Hans Christian Andersen

Maid Quotes #31953
#9. I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?

Linda Howard

Maid Quotes #34947
#10. There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

Fidel Castro

Maid Quotes #35235
#11. Rachel crowed, jumped up, and hugged back. Now that her maid of honor was here, everything would

Gay N. Lewis

Maid Quotes #35814
#12. I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me ... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Karen Black

Maid Quotes #36856
#13. Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

Phoebe Cary

Maid Quotes #42145
#14. The mind is your guard, the heart is your maid and the soul is your territory. Nobody else but you should have the control of these.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

Maid Quotes #50576
#15. And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.

Kate Williams

Maid Quotes #67359
#16. Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

Marcel Proust

Maid Quotes #70229
#17. Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

Kate Morton

Maid Quotes #100195
#18. Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

C.S. Lewis

Maid Quotes #112399
#19. What if you never meet him?
Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.
Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.

L.M. Montgomery

Maid Quotes #119618
#20. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

Hartley Coleridge

Maid Quotes #123926
#21. Oh sure, I'm her husband. That's what the record says. I'm the three white steps and the bug green front door and the brass knocker you rap one long and two short and the maid lets you into the hundred-dollar whorehouse.

Raymond Chandler

Maid Quotes #134930
#22. An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

Daniel Morgan

Maid Quotes #155297
#23. You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

Jessica Day George

Maid Quotes #160121
#24. How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Maid Quotes #164509
#25. 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.

Annie Proulx

Maid Quotes #165064
#26. It's too late," she said, her voice trembling. "You are not the beautiful innocent vagabond walking toward me under the dogwood blossoms, with his trunks and his head full of worthless notions. And I am not the beloved, cherished ladies' maid ...

Geraldine Brooks

Maid Quotes #170560
#27. She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #176082
#28. How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maid Quotes #179098
#29. I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings.
He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.

Cecilia Grant

Maid Quotes #186014
#30. Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Florence King

Maid Quotes #209953
#31. I'm just a stalker.

Usui Takumi

Maid Quotes #212462
#32. How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

John Gay

Maid Quotes #213744
#33. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup

Steen Langstrup

Maid Quotes #218938
#34. Walking along the path that she chose, without being affected by others ... in this sense, white is her color ... in another sense, it also makes me want to put more colors on her

Usui Takumi

Maid Quotes #219566
#35. There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Lafcadio Hearn

Maid Quotes #223071
#36. Lady Brienne is a warrior maid," confided Septon Meribald, "hunting for the Hound." "Aye?" Narbert seemed taken aback. "To what end?" Brienne touched Oathkeeper's hilt. "His," she said.

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #241302
#37. When you see a woman in silks and sables and diamonds speak to a little errand girl or a footman or a scullery maid as though they were the dirt under her feet, you may be sure of one thing; she hasn't come a very long way from the ground herself.

Emily Post

Maid Quotes #242221
#38. Never take the mistress if you can get the maid.

James M. Cain

Maid Quotes #244035
#39. Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.

Mercedes Lackey

Maid Quotes #244180
#40. The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

John Dryden

Maid Quotes #250153
#41. I loved a maid as white as winter, with moonglow in her hair.

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #253377
#42. Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

Kate Atkinson

Maid Quotes #255955
#43. And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling.

Alison Croggon

Maid Quotes #257573
#44. But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.

L.M. Montgomery

Maid Quotes #272300
#45. Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Maid Quotes #272386
#46. Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Martin Luther

Maid Quotes #280242
#47. The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

Louisa May Alcott

Maid Quotes #288274
#48. In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces ... Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players.
Petyr Baelish

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #291373
#49. Yossarian was in love with the maid in the lime-colored panties because she seemed to be the only woman left he could make love to without falling in love with.

Joseph Heller

Maid Quotes #299072
#50. I loved a maid as red as autumn [ ... ] with sunset in her hair.

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #305312
#51. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Maid Quotes #306612
#52. The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.

Jane Austen

Maid Quotes #308438
#53. Sunny, I can't believe you and Cole got married before me and Travis."

"Travis married us in the Motel 6 parking lot last night, remember? You were my maid of honor and everything."

"Goddamn, I'm never drinking PBR again," she says and makes a fake retching sound.

Mercy Brown

Maid Quotes #313021
#54. I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

Hattie McDaniel

Maid Quotes #319320
#55. I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

Lily Tomlin

Maid Quotes #321647
#56. God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

Samuel Pepys

Maid Quotes #336290
#57. Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

George Bernard Shaw

Maid Quotes #337067
#58. And I have lifetimes inside me, I'm the girl you see standing here,and I'm a cranky old professor, and I'm a peace-loving man, and I'm a killer and a maid and a king and a peasant. I am a dozen more. You think you're old? You got nothing on me.

Derek Landy

Maid Quotes #338813
#59. If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

Tim Gunn

Maid Quotes #343794
#60. The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Edward Young

Maid Quotes #350969
#61. A maid that laughs is half taken.

John Ray

Maid Quotes #360281
#62. I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Dario Argento

Maid Quotes #366961
#63. And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

John Milton

Maid Quotes #374934
#64. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh

Alison Croggon

Maid Quotes #413184
#65. And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and would die unwed, for no one would have her now.

E. M. Forster

Maid Quotes #420610
#66. There would be no dressing up as a maid. No cyanide slipped into his crystal glass of mineral water. The Fuhrer's death was to be a loud, screaming thing. A broadcast of blood over the Reichssender.

Ryan Graudin

Maid Quotes #423148
#67. Daddy said you're a flat-chested old maid who probably sleeps with your legs crossed.

Patricia Watters

Maid Quotes #424791
#68. Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?
I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me for the day. I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was NOT resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me. There is a limit even to my endurance.

Wilkie Collins

Maid Quotes #428978
#69. No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

Chris Pavesic

Maid Quotes #432910
#70. ..The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and soon the tongues were wagging like flags in the wind....

David Fulmer

Maid Quotes #439078
#71. But you must have a lady"s maid."
"Don't I have Marius?

Victor Hugo

Maid Quotes #440320
#72. He was a simple honest man. He never strayed,
He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid.
And when he passed away his insurance was denied,
Because he never lived, they claimed he never died.

Ted Gup

Maid Quotes #445838
#73. What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

Gina Rodriguez

Maid Quotes #456687
#74. Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

Plato

Maid Quotes #459866
#75. And meek, so she said nothing to her maid's ill behavior,

Anonymous

Maid Quotes #460680
#76. I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Diane Keaton

Maid Quotes #468367
#77. My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his ... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid ... a practical maid. No fantasies.

Trevor Noah

Maid Quotes #478388
#78. Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

Hattie McDaniel

Maid Quotes #478555
#79. I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.

Amy Weber

Maid Quotes #484622
#80. The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

Joan Of Arc

Maid Quotes #489194
#81. The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.

Roald Dahl

Maid Quotes #496117
#82. I know muckers are the simplest of commoners and becoming a lady's maid is a right honor, but I couldn't give up the wild steppes forever, couldn't turn my back on Mama and all she taught. I feel like a mucker from the ends of my hair to the mud of my bones.

Shannon Hale

Maid Quotes #496771
#83. You're the only person whom I want to know about me.

Hiro Fujiwara

Maid Quotes #506307
#84. Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah,

Margaret Atwood

Maid Quotes #506696
#85. 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.

H. Beam Piper

Maid Quotes #511709
#86. We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid.

Christine De Pizan

Maid Quotes #512712
#87. Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

Groucho Marx

Maid Quotes #522063
#88. Tis said if under a waxing moon a maid weaves a chain of bluebells within the stone circle, the next lad she sees will be her true love." She held up her handiwork. "Tis no' quite finished, so I believe ye are safe from me...

Willa Blair

Maid Quotes #523553
#89. It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

Anton Chekhov

Maid Quotes #525914
#90. I didn't toss aside my plan to steer clear of meaningless rebound flings because I can't resist a French maid costume. I didn't say yes to bedding my boss, the woman signing my paychecks, because you showed up at my door looking like a male fantasy. I couldn't resist you." "You

Sara Jane Stone

Maid Quotes #534740
#91. Can I give you a word of advice?" Lucy asked.
"I suppose so."
"You have a great French accent. If a guy asks you to wear a French maid's costume, kick him in the shin."
"Especially if it's one of my brothers" Solange agreed.

Alyxandra Harvey

Maid Quotes #546115
#92. The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Maid Quotes #554468
#93. When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

Whoopi Goldberg

Maid Quotes #559902
#94. My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Sarah Waters

Maid Quotes #569187
#95. I'll tell you if you kiss me.

Usui Takumi

Maid Quotes #576011
#96. Aside from her aged maid, Sansa's only companion was the Lord Robert, eight going on three.

George R R Martin

Maid Quotes #579651
#97. An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps ...

Louisa May Alcott

Maid Quotes #583389
#98. Tillie studied her mother's face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.

Deeanne Gist

Maid Quotes #595815
#99. 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.

Winston S. Churchill

Maid Quotes #597676
#100. The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.

Margaret George

Maid Quotes #603771

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