Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Moran

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

Catherynne M. Valente

She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

Mariah Carey

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

John Flanagan

Now for God's sake, will you two start behaving like a princess and a Courier?" Halt told them. "If you don't, I'll have to think about sending Will home.' 'Me?' Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. 'What's it got to do with me?' 'It's all your fault!' Halt shouted irrationally.

Edward James Olmos

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Deb Caletti

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

Earl Sweatshirt

All rappers are princesses like me.

Bella Thorne

I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.

Bella Thorne

I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.

W. S. Gilbert

Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.

William Shakespeare

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Arthur Rimbaud

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Anton Chekhov

It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...

Jay Leno

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.

Hattie McDaniel

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

John Dryden

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!

Laini Taylor

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Ivan Turgenev

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Frederick Leboyer

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Lauren Miller

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Neil Jordan

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Kristen Bell

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

Joan Chen

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

Kate Forsyth

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.