Quotes About Maid

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.

It is true that those same servants who cannot bear our tears will have no hesitation in letting us catch pneumonia, because the maid downstairs likes draughts and it would not be polite to her to shut the windows.

He who puts his brother in the ground is everywhere. The word of the wise has fled without delay. Lo, the son of man is denied recognition, The child of his lady became the son of his maid. Lo, the desert claims the land, The nomes are destroyed.

The nursery maid is pouring paraffin on a sulky nursery fire.

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

She looked like a tear-streaked maid sleepless under the weight on unbearable knowledge. She smiled.

Gwladus was right. The tremble turned her from madwoman to frightened maid.

Hild was recognized: a tall maid with fathomless eyes, a very big knife and the pig's blood still on her skirts.

Hild understood and suspended judgment, as she had learnt to do in her strange position as the light of the world in a maid's clothes. And yet she was ten, only ten, her heft only that of her gaze and words and bearing, especially on days like this when she had set out in her plainest short cyrtel and hose and left all her fine stuff safe and dry in Begu's room.

Pearl's temper absolutely unbearable, and caused her to break her ivory hair-brush upon her maid's shoulders.