Top 30 Maid Quotes

People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn’t a mansion. We didn’t have a butler or a maid.

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

My mom raised me to be clean, so it’s in my nature. I have two little girls, and I’m married, but we’ve got a nanny and a maid.

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

As children, my brother Baba and I would be taken to mushairas when my mother Shaukat Kaifi was touring with Prithvi Theatres, because we couldn’t afford a maid.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren’t in big houses. They were maids of all work.

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man’s property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

I grew up in a time when women didn’t really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny – because it’s powerful; it’s a threat.

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father’s books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Everyday, I get up in the morning and I see a picture of my grandson in newspapers. Now everyone recognizes his maid also! That’s because of the paparazzi.

When I’m up on stage, I don’t think about anything except the song I’m singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can’t think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

I won’t say there’s disrespect for the Indian home cook, but I was never exposed to that. Even in a semi-urban Indian family, you will find a maid. And once you meet these people, you realise they cook purely out of passion or love for the family.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn’t quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me… I’m a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you’ve got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn’t you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody’s maid or somebody’s wife or somebody’s best friend?

I’m a real Kentish maid, you know.

I feel teenage is an age when you should try and spend most of your time with your child. You can’t leave them with maid or servants.

Whether it’s an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I’ll wear it for the sake of the story.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

I don’t see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney’s sarcastic black maid. We could call it ‘Mammy & Me.’

I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after ‘Far From Heaven.’ I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.