Best Housemaids Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I found it, miss," Meggie exclaimed breathlessly, extending the coin in her hand. It was possible that she had never held a sovereign before, since the average housemaid earned approximately eight shillings a month. "Where shall I put it?" "You may divide it between the two of you," Annabelle said. The housemaids stared at her, dumbfounded. "Oh, thank you, miss!" they both exclaimed, eyes wide and mouths open in amazement.”

Generosity Housemaids Annabelle Peyton

Book:Secrets of a Summer Night

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.”

Firsts Wells Lines Wealth Ability Poor Pay Rich Citizens Workers Income Doctrine Corporations Widows Waitress Housemaids

Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.”

Faces Black Rooms Study Battle Soldier Drawing Dirty Disorder Vulgar Stains Housemaids

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.”

Mind I Can Light Fire Housemaids

Book:More Memories

Source: More Memories

“All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.”

Thinking Feels Character Interesting Safety Independence Ems Lottery Single Life Interesting Characters Housemaids

Book:Works of Charles Dickens

Source: Works of Charles Dickens

“I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.”

Flight Knees Aviation Kneeling Housemaids

Author:Amelia Earhart

“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”

Simple Foundation Misery Simplicity Simple Living Refinement Arts And Crafts Housemaids

Book:William Morris on Art and Socialism

Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism

“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.”

People Ifs Knows World Firsts Looks Real Done Faces Laughing Angry Heavy Lifts Real World Housemaids

Book:The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume I - The Years, The Waves

Source: The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume I - The Years, The Waves

“You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.”

Men Wanted Information Fellows Dear Engaged Call Me Holmes Marrying Watson Housemaids Congrats

Book:The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.”

Six Letters Twenties Knees Malady Housemaids

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.”

Matter Facts Might Life Is Boys Remains Dear Finished Knees Passing Away Housemaids

Book:Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

“Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.”

Want Should Firsts Suffering Calling Should Have Sick Patient Consideration Nurse Nursing Housemaids

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.”

War Ends Heard Streets Son Brother Beats Evidence Aunt Policemen Sister Downing Downing Street Housemaids

Author:Reginald Arkell

“If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Helping Women Perfection Australia Housemaids

Author:Nellie Melba

“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.”

Soul Areas Gates Damp Housemaids

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.”

Whole Novel Week Excitement Jane Heroines Austen Housemaids

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness