Maids Quotes - Page 3

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

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

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.