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Quotes About Damsel

last words) Don't worry, Captain Hammer will save us.
~ Joss Whedon
Damsel, wherefore art thou girt with that sword, for it beseemeth thee not?
~ James Knowles
The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.
~ James D'arcy
I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived. Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel. Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.
~ Kate Chopin
To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.
~ Richelle Mead
Back to my hero/damsel in distress syndrome. I'd read too many fairy tales as a child, and I was too much of a realist not to enjoy being rescued once in a while.
~ Kim Harrison
The knight returns with the damsel in distress," Jameson declared as I made my way toward him. He glanced toward Grayson. "You're the damsel." "I figured
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true
~ Emily Dickinson
The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part—and that's only because you're pretty enough to be one. Not the distress thing. Everything else you just said was ridiculous. You're not helpless.
~ Richelle Mead
Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.
~ Jessica Alba
I mean, what is the point of being a damsel in distress if your knight goes off and just does his own thing?
~ Angie Sage
In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
Yes, but then I came and rescued her!" the White Knight replied.
~ Lewis Carroll
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
~ Robin McKinley
A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw:It was an Abyssinian maid,And on her dulcimer she played,Singing of Mount Abora.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An intelligent, reasonable man in most cases has nothing to fear from women. You must beware of two things. Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress. Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.
~ Mario Puzo
Evil always has an advantage and always succeeds until its enormous feet understep some moral chasm, or a damsel held dear by the populace cries out and is heard.
~ Stephen Dunn
few minutes later, when she momentarily forgot that the water was off and turned on the faucet, it ran beautifully. Andrew had, once again, succeeded. He'd arrived unannounced like a knight on his shiny white horse to save the damsel in distress. Damn him.
~ Bella Andre
Ik begreep plotseling waarom de schaars geklede filmheldinnen altijd in katzwijm vielen in hun redders armen: niet omdat ze zulke slappe troela's waren, maar omdat je blijkbaar slappe knieën krijgt als een man iets heel bijzonders doet om jou te redden, en dat was, merkte ik nu, een plezierig gevoel.
~ Shanna Swendson
Apple smiled. She could play the damsel-in-distress like a cow could jump over a moon. The male species couldn't resist wanting to help her.
~ Shannon Hale
Mental note: Being the damsel in distress truly sucked angel feathers; avoid at all costs.
~ Hannah Howell