“ If I'd been a housemaid, I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. ”
- Nellie Melba- Copy
- 3.4K
“ What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The Widow and Her Little Maidens A widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early… ”
- Aesop- Copy
- 75
“ Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. (Chorus:) Let the toast pass, — Drink to the lass, I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. ”
- Kirsten Dunst- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2K
“ Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 772
“ And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights, And I trow The damsel, deftly shod, Has dutifully trod Until now. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
- 3K
“ Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. ”
- Tim Bedore- Copy
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