Bachelor Quote by Marcel Proust

“I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Thirty years of marriage to Erasto had taught her much, namely that men were reckless by nature, full of bluster, most incompetent, the rest…

— A. H. Septimius

“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.”

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“No longer expecting to be beautiful and touched with grace till the end of her days, she was coming to the realization that whereas…

— Anonymous

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“THEY pass’d the Time of their Journey in as much Happiness as the most luxurious Gratification of wild Desires could make them; and when…

— Eliza Haywood

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells

“And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a…

— George Eliot

“And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon

“The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.”

— A.H. Septimius