Unmaidenly Quotes & Sayings

Living life instead of just thinking about it. — David Levithan

It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page. — Susan Glaspell

To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It's a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue. — Brent Weeks

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression. — Terrence Howard

Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers.
"Yes," snapped the Carp. — Garth Nix

But I could see she wanted to talk, that her pat phrases were like lids dancing on top of bubbling cooking pots, and all I had to do was sit patiently and wait for her to boil over. — Zadie Smith

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon. — Euripides

Do you miss him?" he asked. "Every day. — Ann Aguirre

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about. — Cecil Murphey

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. — Eduardo Galeano

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life. — Frederick Lenz

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy. — Elizabeth Gaskell

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile
and without a blush
in steadfast virile seriousness. — Umberto Eco

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing. — Amy Bloom

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film. — John C. Reilly

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. — Louisa May Alcott

Once we learn the beautiful language of love, we may understand the language of everyone's heart — Mimi Novic