Old Maids Quotes

• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Dog, House

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

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Maids, Wrong Man

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Tea, Maids, Scandal

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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• Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Color, Gentleman, Age

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Destiny, Maids, Bent

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• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

  William Blake

  Maids, Ugly, Action

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  People, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”

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• Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

  Florence King

  Single, Powerful, Crazy

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• I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

  Janet Reno

  Men, Awkward, Maids

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• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Marriage, Girl, Wedding

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Maids, Ends, Matrimony

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• The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Games, Play

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• Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Demand, Maids, Occupation

  1849 Shirley, ch.22.

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  Lana Turner

  Girl, Men, Saint

  "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles". Book by Jon Lewis, April 19, 2017.

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• Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Running, Husband

  Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

  Florence King

  Real, Women, Names

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

  Janet Reno

  Men, Maids, Explanation

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• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Single, Maids

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.

  Terry Gross

  Football, Children, Dad

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.62

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• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Sports, Boys

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

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