Unmarried Woman Quotes

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

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

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

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

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.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

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.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

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

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.