Housemaid Quotes

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. (Henry James)
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. View quote
Nellie Melba
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. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. View quote
Jane Austen
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. View quote
Charles Dickens
Man, as the prying housemaid of the soul. View quote
William Empson