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she glides away as if she were the princess and I a dumpy maid in a sooty dress. While — Rae Carson

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

If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa] — Karen Maitland

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter? — Kate Atkinson

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. — Evelyn Waugh

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek? — Horace Walpole

What am I going to say to the lady's maid when she sees this?"
He considered that for a moment. "Alas?" he suggested. — Lisa Kleypas

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

Deuce, the maid of honor died at your wedding," Ty said.
"Well, I didn't kill her," Deuce argued. — Abigail Roux

The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. — Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce

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. — Craig Ferguson

Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy ... — William Butler Yeats

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

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

Maid
of the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle

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

Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream. — Mercedes Lackey

Do not let us despise the woman who is neither mother, sister, maid, nor wife — Alexandre Dumas-fils

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. — Edward Young

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

Just imagine what it was like growing up here," he replied. "Every time I farted, the maid sprayed air freshener. — Nick Wilgus

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old — Groucho Marx

The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved. — Roald Dahl

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

Good Luck is a giddy maid,
Fickle and restless as a fawn;
She smooths your hair; and then the jade
Kisses you quickly, and is gone. — Heinrich Heine

The blushing beauties of a modest maid. — John Dryden

Juan nonchalantly drove the shovel through the head of the zombified maid, and the drama was over. — Rhiannon Frater

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

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. — John Hay

Never take the mistress if you can get the maid. — James M. Cain

Katie, honey, you need a date for your sister's wedding."
"I had a date, Mom. He's marrying the bride. — Susan Mallery

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. — Annie Proulx

Damn you've got an irresistible mouth. You should hold it against me more often." ~Luke, Kissing the Maid of Honor — Robin Bielman

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Thank you for lending me the use of your maid. I tragically lost my lady-in-waiting on our journey and found Cosme's presence such a comfort. — Rae Carson

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. — Martin Luther

Shagga's more like to eat the maid and marry the goose — George R R Martin

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore De Balzac

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

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. — George Bernard Shaw

I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye. — David Levithan

The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! — Mark Twain

Thee'th not to be touched, the goat screamed, spraying spittle all over Zollo. Thee hath to be a maid, you foolth! Thee'th worth a bag of thapphireth! — George R R Martin

Her name is Brienne. Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"
"Yes."
"Oh, good. I only rescue maidens. — George R R Martin

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

You're the only person whom I want to know about me. — Hiro Fujiwara

Aside from her aged maid, Sansa's only companion was the Lord Robert, eight going on three. — George R R Martin

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow? — James Hogg

And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling. — Alison Croggon

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

Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free. — Tracy Chevalier

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth. — Ronald Greville

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

Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, — Margaret Atwood

The mind is your guard, the heart is your maid and the soul is your territory. Nobody else but you should have the control of these. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

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

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. . . . — William Shakespeare