Spinsters quotes:

Send

America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. -- Bertrand Russell
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? -- Lisa Kleypas
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. -- Gemma Arterton
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around. -- Anne Stuart
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all. -- Daphne Guinness
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. -- Agatha Christie
I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters. -- Loretta Chase
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. -- Peter Greenaway
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is. -- Gloria Steinem
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room. -- Germaine Greer
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn. -- Honore de Balzac
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow. -- Nancy Mitford
I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood. -- Tessa Dare
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR. -- Connie Willis
My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet. -- Kylie Minogue
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation. -- Gail Carriger
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor. -- Rod Liddle
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men. -- Rose Macaulay
It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine. -- Chien-Shiung Wu
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. -- Louisa May Alcott
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. -- Wilkie Collins
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. -- John Updike
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. -- Tobsha Learner
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. -- Louisa May Alcott
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. -- Desmond Morris
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Send