Quotes About Maidenhood

#1. I came to feel how far above
All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
All earthly pleasure, all imagined good,
Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

John Keats

#2. It soon transpired, however, that the unicorn only approached youthful maidens, paying absolutely no attention to older ones. Being a wise creature, the unicorn indubitably knows that remaining too long in the state of maidenhood is suspicious and counter to the natural order. Physiologus

Andrzej Sapkowski

#3. Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. Death which is the mother of the universe! - Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky - no revolution might destroy that maidenhood

Allen Ginsberg

#5. Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood - at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#7. All you have to do is utter the words, "I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt." Yes, you heard that right. Eternal maidenhood and

Rick Riordan

#8. Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

Margaret Of Valois

#9. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Steve Prefontaine

#10. I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Audrey Tautou

#11. I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Jenny Lewis

#12. Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

Mark Webber

#13. Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Stephen Hopkins

#14. It was called Operation Coitus Interruptus, which only goes to prove that there are some people in the FBI with a sense of humor.

James Patterson

#15. Don't you feel that our brief hurried letters
lack feeling and spirit,
contain no whispers or dreams of love ,
that our responses are slow and burdened . . .

Samih Al-Qasim

#16. You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

Alexander Siddig

#17. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

#18. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have a dream of her at night.

Graham Greene

#19. If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Lloyd Dorfman

#20. Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

Fergie

#21. What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?

Virginia Woolf