Washington Irving Quotes

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

I have not settled down with a life partner.

I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other side of my career of being a Lothario.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.

My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.