Quotes Tagged With :spinster

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either....

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's....

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a....

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the....

Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks....

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen....