Maid Quotes

“I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafes. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.”
― Hiro Fujiwara

“Dorinpa, Dorunpa. Now you can't lie.”
― Usui Takumi

“Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this.

Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?”
― Natsuki Takaya

“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.

There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“My maid never sweeps under the bed
so I asked her to do so today.
Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“I was waiting at table tonight, on account of it being such a big party, and just as I was coming round with the savoury, one of the ladies went and broke her necklace by fidgeting with it at the ta ble. She thought she picked 'em all up but this one rolled under my foot and I stood on it tight until all the ladies went upstairs. I wanted to give it to you. You're a black pearl, Bertha, that's what you are and it's only right that you should have it.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

“When all else fails, tidy up.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The maid came in to light up and soon it would be time to go upstairs and change for dinner. I thought this woman one of the most fascinating I had ever seen. She had a long thin face, dead white, or powdered dead white. Her hair was black and lively under her cap, her eyes so small that the first time I saw her I thought she was blind. But wide open, they were the most astonishing blue, cornflower blue, no, more like sparks of blue fire. Then she would drop her eyelids and her face would go dead and lifeless again. I never tired of watching this transformation.”
― Jean Rhys, Sleep It Off Lady: Stories

“I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful characters. Some have facial make-ups, others have mental make-ups!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Perhaps it’s an occupational hazard: I see dirt where others don’t.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“A faint terror lest she begin to curtsy took hold of Rupert.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

“Just then, I notice Mrs. Mulgrave giving the younger woman beside her a slight push in my direction.
"This is my daughter, Maisie. She will be your maid."
"Maisie?" I can't help blurting out in astonishment.
I hardly recognize her. The past seven years have transformed Maisie from a plain preteen into a beautiful young adult. I didn't expect her to be so... pretty. She wears a black tee with black pants, but the simple clothing and lack of makeup only enhances her looks. She has heavy-lidded deep brown eyes, clear skin with the hint of a tan, the kind of plush pink lips that housewives in my New York hometown would pay good money for, and long brown hair highlighted with strands of gold. Her only adornments are a thick wristwatch and a rectangular pendant hanging on a chain around her neck.
I feel a pang of sympathy as I look from mother to daughter. If Maisie's luck had been different---if she'd been born to parents like the Marinos---she could have had the world at her feet, instead of being shut up in a house working as a maid.”
― Alexandra Monir, Suspicion

“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly.
I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want to go, you can, but don't come back again to this house.
Comfort was beautiful, but her stealing attributes brought reproach on her and painted her beauty with dark impressions.
I looked at her, walking barefooted on the muddy ground congested with rain water.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Comfort

“It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past few days had turned her into a reserved yet intelligent young woman.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time.
The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you think you know about love?”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Resztki zostawionej tu osobowości poprzedniego gościa trzeba zwalczyć swoją bezosobowością. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbić tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko muszę zetrzeć szmatką, ale także zapełnić lustro moją biało-różową beztwarzowością. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i pośpiech muszę zagłuszyć moim bezzapachem.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Szafa

“After you’ve worked in a hotel, there’s nothing about human nature you don’t know.”
― Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen

“Some of the things some people have are so expensive that you’d swear it is their maids, not them, who live where they live.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in America, South Africa and other places in the world like them. Black people. My people. Travelin. To be cooks, janitors, housekeepers, porters, days workers, servants, Black boys, Beige girls, Brown daddies, Ebony mothers.”
― Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae

“A friend of mine who is a Black Christian Nationalist remembers that, "My grandmother was the first Black Revolutionary I ever knew. During the War, when everyone was prickin' those little red buttons on the plastic bag that changed the color of that lard-like stuff to make margarine—well, we didn't have that, cause my grandmother stole butter from the crackers. She did a number of other things like half doing the cleaning, scorching the clothes, half cleanin the vegetables, breakin the gall of the liver of the chicken." This kind of domestic action is not new. Been going on since slavery.”
― Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae

“Quiet as it's kept, there is a certain type of "upper class" white folks who don't use "colored help" at all. In fact, household labor is a segregated occupation. A Lancashire-born (English) butler, asked if he had encountered many black men and women in his 20 years of service, said reflectively, "I can't think of one I worked with. On one job we had Italian cook, an Irish kitchen man, a French lady's maid, an English butler, and an English parlormaid." The upper echelon's household staff is 99-99/100% white.”
― Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae

“So thoughtful,” the taller maid said dreamily.
“I like him already,” the shorter maid agreed.
I want to punch him, Evangeline thought.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After