Maids Quotes

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Old maids,
having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers,
as woman's destiny requires,
have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

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.

Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

Well, 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.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

... 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.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

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.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

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.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Old maids claw as cats do.
They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so.
Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.