Quotes About Handmaiden

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution. What about love? Where does that fit in? Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

If you know anything about the friendships of young girls, you will know that there is always one person playing the part of the handmaiden, anyhow. Celia demanded

Madam, hatred has become your handmaiden.

Now is the time! Ysabelle cried. Now do I accede to the throne and claim my place as Handmaiden to Orion!

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

Transparency was a guardian of frugality, just as confusion had been a handmaiden of extravagance.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Prosperity was the handmaiden of peace, and the assassin of discontent.

Cowardly multiculturalism thus makes itself the handmaiden of anti-Western extremism.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Bad enough to disrespect a handmaiden, worse to disrespect the handmaiden of the most powerful man in the temple. Whichever way it was looked at, it was a punishable offense. It didn't matter whether she had identified herself or not. Even the plainest woman should be able to walk the street without feeling threatened or accosted.