Spinster Quotes

19 quotes by 16 authors

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster.… — Kylie Minogue
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. — Gemma Arterton
The word 'barren' tells you everything you need to know. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women… — Caitlin Moran
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe,… — Gail Carriger
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all. — Daphne Guinness
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,… — Gail Carriger
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? — Lisa Kleypas
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around. — Anne Stuart
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being… — Nancy Mitford
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her,… — Daphne du Maurier
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashionâ€” although she did tend to… — Gail Carriger
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a… — Germaine Greer
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the… — Sarah MacLean

Who Wrote These Spinster Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 19 Spinster Quotes as follows: