Old Maid Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
— William Blake
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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
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I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
— Diane Keaton
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes…
— Polly Adler
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and…
— Jessica Biel
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The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old
— Groucho Marx
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
— Arthur Rimbaud
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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
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I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
— Janet Reno
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,…
— Stephen King
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Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
— Billy Sunday
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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children…
— Jane Austen
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Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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…
— Florence King
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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
Who Wrote These Old Maid Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Old Maid Quotes as follows: