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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. -- Lord Byron
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa! -- Tom Stoppard
Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer! -- William C. Bryant
Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these. -- Tanith Lee
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else. -- John Hay
To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths. -- Stuart Hill
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships. -- Catherynne M. Valente
[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
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In maiden meditation, fancy free. -- William Shakespeare
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -- T. S. Eliot
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -- Chuck Jones
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. -- Francis Bacon
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. -- Bruce Dickinson
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. -- George Duke
Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. -- Hartley Coleridge
War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.... -- Hilda Doolittle
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. -- Paula Poundstone
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. -- D. H. Lawrence
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. -- Mason Cooley
I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. -- Cameron Diaz
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. -- Erin Morgenstern
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. -- Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. -- Bruce Dickinson
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties. -- Donna Tartt
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded. -- Bruce Dickinson
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. -- John Henrik Clarke
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. -- Scott Putesky
I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices. -- Dhani Harrison
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets. -- Vladimir Nabokov
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. -- Joan of Arc
Good day, fair maidens. -- Val Venis
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? -- Ron Killings
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars. -- Harry S. Truman
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. -- Jack Vance
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame. -- Aeschylus
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. -- Antoine Rivarol
For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden -- Karen Hawkins
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... -- Margaret Drabble
I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens. -- Richelle Mead
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. -- Diane Johnson
Days are precious, dinna lose them. Flo`ers will fade and so will ye... Come to me, ye fair young maidens. While young and fair ye still may be. -- L. J. Smith
Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes.""Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens. -- George R. R. Martin
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him. -- Laini Taylor
She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light. -- Hartley Coleridge
...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot. -- Libba Bray
He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb. -- J.V. Jones

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