MAID

Related Subjects: Daughter, Girl, Innocence, Virginity

1. Maidens' hearts are always soft:
   Would that men's were truer!—BRYANT, Song
   

2. I once was a maid, though I cannot tell when,
   And still my delight is in proper young men.—BURNS, The Jolly Beggars
   

3. Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
   And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

4. Maid of Athens, ere we part,
   Give, oh give me back my heart!—BYRON, Maid of Athens
   

5. A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
   A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

6. Is a maiden all the better when she's tough?—W. S. GILBERT, The Mikado
   

7. Maids' nays are nothing; they are shy
   But do desire what they deny.—ROBERT HERRICK, Maids' Nays are Nothing
   

8. My Son, if a maiden deny thee and scufflingly bid thee give o'er,
   Yet lip meets with lip at the lastward.
   Get out! She has been there before.—KIPLING, Certain Maxims of Hafiz
   

9. Standing, with reluctant feet,
   Where the brook and river meet,
   Womanhood and childhood fleet!—LONGFELLOW, Maidenhood
   

10. And, when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
    The maiden herself will steal after it soon.—THOMAS MOORE, Ill Omens
    

11. The rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore—
    Nameless here for evermore.—POE, The Raven
    

12. Warn'd by the Sylph, O pious maid, beware!
    This to disclose is all thy guardian can:
    Beware of all, but most beware of man!—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
    

13. And she who scorns a man must die a maid.—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
    

14. While the tall maid is stooping, the little one hath swept the house.—Proverb
    

15. When maidens sue, men live like gods.—Proverb
    

16. Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want every thing.—Proverb
    

17. Do as the maids do, say no, and take it.—Proverb
    

18. Maidens should be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.—Proverb
    

19. All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives?—Proverb
    

20. Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.—Proverb
    

21. A maid that laughs is half taken.—Proverb
    

22. A maid that giveth yieldeth.—Proverb
    

23. I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,
    That I protest I simply am a maid.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well

24. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

25. The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
    If she unmask her beauty to the moon.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

26. A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

27. Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy
    Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

28. She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
    Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

29. A maid of grace and com­plete majesty.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

30. An honest maid as ever broke bread.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

31. A maiden never bold;
    Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
    Blush'd at itself.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

32. Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?—LESLIE STUART, Tell Me, Pretty Maiden: Refrain of the Floradora Sextette
    

33. A simple maiden in her flower
    Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.—TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vera

34. Mother, a maiden is a tender thing
    And best by her that bore her understood.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

35. Here by God's rood is the one maid for me.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

36. The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.—THOMAS TICKELL, To a Lady with a Present of Flowers
    

37. Maidens withering on the stalk.—WORDSWORTH, Personal Talk
    

38. She dwelt among the untrodden ways
    Beside the springs of Dove,
    A maid whom there were none to praise
    And very few to love.—WORDSWORTH, Lucy