Top 253 Maid Quotes & Sayings

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

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

Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

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

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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

I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said, "I was just whispering in her mouth"

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

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

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. 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. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

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

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

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

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

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

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

Faint heart never won fair maid.

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

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

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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

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

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.

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

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

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

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafes. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

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

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

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

I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.