Quotes About Old Maids

#1. Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings

#2. I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.

Florence Converse

#5. every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids

Sinead Moriarty

#6. Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

Thomas Nelson Page

#7. A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

John Major

#8. Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Mary Borden

#9. Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Louisa May Alcott

#11. 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

#12. Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!

Laurie Notaro

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

Florence King

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. She never even wore stockings; just those bullet proof tights that you see on old maids.

Poppet

#20. 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

#21. Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.

L.M. Montgomery

#22. Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Brenna Aubrey

#24. Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named after a flat, spiny, prehistoric-looking fish.

Christina Baker Kline

#25. There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.

Dave Chappelle

#26. Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

Katy Perry

#27. 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

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

Janet Reno

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

Janet Reno

#30. I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Malcolm X

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

Louisa May Alcott

#32. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

Bobby Robson

#33. The old men shall dream dreams,
The young maids will see visions,
The beast of the forest will turn away,
They will see the child of misery coming,
And make clear the path.
- Song of Venda

Mary E. Pearson

#34. Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?

Herman Melville

#35. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi