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Quotes About Maiden

Marrying left your maiden name disused.
~ Philip Larkin
No, no, let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration, and admire with love, and love with joy in the midst of all woes ; let us in such sort think, I say, that our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.
~ Philip Sidney
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
~ Victor LaValle
With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipped maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.
~ A. E. Housman
When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death's own door he lies, Maiden, you can heal his ail. Lovers' ills are all to buy: The wan look, the hollow tone, The hung head, the sunken eye, You can have them for your own. Buy them, buy them: eve and morn Lovers' ills are all to sell. Then you can lie down forlorn; But the lover will be well.
~ A.E. Housman
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
~ Heywood Broun
MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Now nearly every small Bengali maiden had heard long ago about her father-in-law's house; but we were a little new-fangled, and had kept these things from our child, so that Mini at this question must have been a trifle bewildered. But she would not show it, and with ready tact replied: 'Are you going there?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Others must by a long dark way Stray to the mystic bards, Or ask some one who has heard them sing Or touch the magic chords. Only the maidens question not The bridges that lead to Dream; Their luminous smiles are like strands of pearls On a silver vase agleam. The maidens' doors of Life lead out Where the song of the poet soars, And out beyond to the great world- To the world beyond the doors. - Maidens
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Look. If you are having pains, scream. If you are seeing thousand-pound elephant birds with reinforced iron nests, tell us and we shall believe you. If you want to climb up and jump from the roof, let me tell you that we feel exactly the same. Only don't lock your door like a maiden aunt with the gravel.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!
~ Aeschylus
The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood. "What have I said?" he asked of the German "That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet.
~ Agath Christie
A tattoo is the embodiment of carnal desire and, once she's had a taste of the needle, a woman—much more than a man—will feel herself aroused and wanting more. At first the process may seem frightening, but that's just the same as the fear a maiden will feel on her wedding night. It's soon forgotten in the discovery of pleasure
~ Akimitsu Takagi
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
~ Thomas Moore
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
~ James M. Barrie
Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
~ Euripides
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
~ William Shakespeare
Who Goes With Fergus? Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Young man, lift up your russet brow, And lift your tender eyelids, maid, And brood on hopes and fear no more. And no more turn aside and brood Upon love's bitter mystery; For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelled wandering stars.
~ William Butler Yeats
The object of life, after all, is not to understand things, but to maintain one's defences and equilibrium and live as well as one can; it is not only maiden aunts who are placed like this
~ William Empson
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
~ Tertullian
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
~ David Lloyd George
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
~ Coventry Patmore
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
~ George Carlin
So holy was the Bull that nothing unlucky might come near him; the youths and maidens must have both their parents alive, they must not have been under the taboo, the infection, of death.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison