Top 70 Nita Prose Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME.”

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2. “When you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.”

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3. “Keep It Simple, Stupid.”

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4. “We must be like bamboo. We must learn to bend and flex with the wind.”

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5. “One must live by her own moral code, not follow like a sheep, blindly.”

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6. “People are a mystery that can never be solved.”

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7. “I don’t cut corners, I shine them.”

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8. “Count your blessings.”

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9. “Vile and evil are composed of the same letters. One begets the other.”

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10. “Cheaters deserve to be thrown in quicksand and to suffocate in filth.”

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11. “We are all the same in different ways.”

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12. “If being a maid is what you’re set on, so be it,’ Gran.”

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13. “She believed in the three E’s – Etiquette, Elocution, and Erudition.”

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14. “You can be so important, so crucial to the fabric of things and yet be entirely overlooked.”

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15. “It’s not your station in life that matters. It’s how you conduct yourself that counts.”

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16. “Sometimes, you must do one thing bad to do another thing good. It’s not always so clear, so black and white like everyone thinks. Especially when you don’t have choices.”

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17. “I don’t believe that some people are more important than other people. We’re all very important in our own way.”

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18. “Gran used to say, Never mind what others think; it’s what you think that matters. And I agree. One must live by their own moral code, not follow like a sheep blindly.”

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19. “If only it were that easy,” she said. “But time, Miss Molly. Time heals all wounds, as they say.” She was right. As time passes, the wound doesn’t hurt as much as it did at first, and that’s always a surprise – to feel a little bit better and yet to miss the past.”

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20. “The world is a better place seen through a prism of colors rather than merely in black and white. In this new world, there is room for versions and variations, for shades of gray.”

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21. “I’ll never understand it – why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

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22. “Poor company is worse than none.”

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23. “My truth is not the same as yours because we don’t experience life in the same way. We are all the same in different ways.”

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24. “When all else fails, tidy up.”

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25. “The world is a better place seen through a prism of colors rather than merely in black and white.”

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26. “Recently, I turned twenty-five, “a quarter of a century” my gran would proclaim to me now if she could say anything to me. Which she can’t, because she is dead. Yes, dead. Why call it anything other than what it is? She did not pass away, like some sweet breeze tickling the heather. She did not go gently. She died. About.”

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27. “Truth isn’t always the highest ideal; sometimes it must be sacrificed to stop the spread of pain to those you love.”

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28. “No one is too high or too low for common courtesy.”

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29. “Laughs are just like smiles. People use them to express an array of confounding emotions.”

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30. “My truth is not the same as yours because we don’t experience life in the same way.”

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31. “If all of this has taught me anything, it is this: there’s a power in me I never knew was there.”

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32. “Cheryl may be my boss, but she’s definitely not my superior. There is a difference, you know. You can’t judge a person by the job they do or by their station in life; you must judge a person by their actions.”

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33. “Mr. Snow, why did you assume?” I asked. “As Gran used to say, when you assume, you make an A-S-S out of U and ME.”

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34. “My uniform is my freedom. It is the ultimate invisibility cloak.”

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35. “I am your maid. I know so much about you. But when it comes down to it: what is that you know about me?”

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36. “It’s easier than you’d ever think – existing in plain sight while remaining largely invisible. That’s what I’ve learned from being a maid.”

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37. “Yesterday was a jolt to my system. Today is also a jolt but in a much more pleasant and exciting way. It goes to show you that you just never know what surprises life has in store for you.”

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38. “We’re all entitled to a bad day now and again, I heard Gran say in my head. But when they are all bad days, with no pleasant ones, then it’s time to reconsider things.”

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39. “What happened at school was bad enough, but Gran knowing about my suffering meant she experienced my pain too. That’s the trouble with pain. It’s as contagious as a disease. It spreads from the person who first endured it to those who love them most. Truth isn’t always the highest ideal; sometimes it must be sacrificed to stop the spread.”

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40. “Today at work, I found a guest very dead in his bed. Mr. Black. The Mr. Black. Other than that, my work day was as normal as ever.”

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41. “Cleanliness is next to godliness, my gran used to say, and I believe that’s a better tenet to live by than most.”

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42. “I’ve been called many a thing in my quarter century, and what I’ve learned is that the common expression about sticks and stones often hurt far less than words.”

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43. “Perhaps it’s an occupational hazard: I see dirt where others don’t.”

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44. “In real life, the actions you take can change the results, from sad to happy, from disappointing to satisfactory, from wrong to right.”

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45. “Never ask what a gentleman did or didn’t do. If he’s a true gentleman, he did it with good cause. And if he’s a true gentleman, he’ll never tell.”

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46. “No point jangling our nerves when the ending’s inevitable. What will be will be.”

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47. “Discretion is my motto. Invisible customer service is my goal.”

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48. “It’s easier than you’d ever think – existing in plain sight while remaining largely invisible. That’s what I’ve learned from being a maid. You can be so important, so crucial to the fabric of things and yet be entirely overlooked.”

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49. “Do you ever feel like the world is backward? Like the villains prosper and the good suffer?”

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50. “How any woman could like a hairy man is beyond me. Not that I’m prejudiced. I’m just saying that if a man I fancied was hairy, I’d get the wax out, and I’d rip the strips off him until he was clean and bare.”

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