Top 88 Maude Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Maude

#1. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]
Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
[she gestures to a field of daisies]

Colin Higgins

#2. How's Uncle Louis today?" "Who?" "And Aunt Maude?

Ray Bradbury

#3. The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.

Chloe Sevigny

#4. You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time
not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you.

Preston Sturges

#5. well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.'
'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.

Colin Higgins

#6. Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.

Larry McMurtry

#7. Indio started forward and took the big man's hand as naturally as he'd taken his mother's. Come on! Maude's making roast chicken and there'll be gravy and dumplings.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#8. Lily opened the door. "Maude, would you - " She cut herself off. Maude was nowhere in sight, but Caliban was across the room, holding a page of her play to the light of the fire. His eyes were intent, his brow slightly creased - and he was quite obviously reading the page.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#9. 'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. I guess you could say I'm the redemption of the fat man. A guy will be watching me on TV and see that I don't look in any better shape than he is. 'Hey, Maude,' he'll holler. 'Get a load of this guy. And he's a 20-game winner.'

Mickey Lolich

#11. ...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of civilization. We continually invent new diseases and almost catch up with them by our invention of remedies.

Joe Gould

#12. When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped her chest... "Some things happened yesterday."
"I nodded. I could feel how that was going to happen. It was already happening.

Laura Alden

#13. Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not understanding her own bnoise; but the scholar hung upon her words, and believed them inspired, and did not know they were murmurings from a shell.

Ernest G. Henham

#14. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Laura Amy Schlitz

#16. A lady named Maude let me in the back,' he said. 'She's a firecracker, that one. Told me she's knitting trivets as a wild change of pace from scarves. If you're keeping score, that means changing from a rectangle all the way to a square.

Heather Cocks

#17. I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Leslie Mann

#18. My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

Andie MacDowell

#19. She also apparently had a bona fide dungeon in her house. At least that's what Inez told me when we arrived. Maude, overhearing as she passed by, rolled her eyes. It's not a dungeon, Inez. It's a wine cellar.

Richelle Mead

#20. I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

Bea Arthur

#21. When he thanked Maude, she knew the camera would be on her, screening each twitch her face twisted into, so she did what any other dignified artist would do and stuck out her tongue.

Anna Adams

#22. Lincoln felt a surge of something like strength. He set down Harold and Maude, surreptitiously, and picked up something else, Hairspray.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. I'll love him til he loves me best
Me best of all, Maude Clare

Christina Rossetti

#24. In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

Louise Erdrich

#25. Maude Jones, had killed herself with a shotgun one morning, leaving a note which merely said, 'Can't stand listening to this wind no more.

Larry McMurtry

#26. I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And ... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

Marilyn Manson

#27. Music is everywhere," Maude said softly. "It is in the water, in the wind's hum, in the bird's cry, in the boat's horn. Rhythm surrounds us. That is one of life's greatest gifts.

Anna Adams

#28. The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

Maude Royden

#29. If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

Francis Maude

#30. Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

Francis Maude

#31. Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Maude Barlow

#32. Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

#33. Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

Maude Meagher

#34. Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards ... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

Francis Maude

#35. We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Francis Maude

#36. I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis Maude

#37. We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

Francis Maude

#38. Anyone one loves is a potential enemy ...

Maude Meagher

#39. The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Francis Maude

#40. We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

Maude Royden

#41. The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Francis Maude

#42. Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

Francis Maude

#43. Dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.

Maude Meagher

#44. When I was about 15 ... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams

#45. You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Maude Adams

#46. I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Maude Adams

#47. War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

Maude Royden

#48. But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Francis Maude

#49. No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

Maude Barlow

#50. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Maude Barlow

#51. The corruption of the best is the worst ...

Maude Royden

#52. It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Francis Maude

#53. We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

Francis Maude

#54. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

Maude Barlow

#55. The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Maude Royden

#56. If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Francis Maude

#57. The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Maude Barlow

#58. Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.

Cornelia Maude Spelman

#59. Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,

Maude Barlow

#60. We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

Francis Maude

#61. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

Maude Barlow

#62. When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can. (Bunny from picture book)

Cornelia Maude Spelman

#63. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#64. It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

Maude Royden

#65. They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

Francis Maude

#66. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

Maude Barlow

#67. I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Maude Adams

#68. I was born with a reading list that I will never finish.

The person who deserves that most pity is a lonely one on a rainy day that does not know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin

Maude Casey

#69. David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Francis Maude

#70. If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Maude Adams

#71. Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Maude Meagher

#72. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.

Frederick Stanley Maude

#73. Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

Maude Barlow

#74. So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Francis Maude

#75. For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

Francis Maude

#76. Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Maude Adams

#77. Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Maude Adams

#78. It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Francis Maude

#79. It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

Maude Royden

#80. If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Maude Royden

#81. Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Maude Adams