Civilized society Quote by Michelle Cooper

“It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point…

— Meredith Duran

“For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted. The bad manners of…

— Oswald Spengler

“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's…

— Alexander Pope

“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually…

— E.M. Forster

“...I have decided that I shan't sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they…

— Amy Mowafi

“It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

— Laura Kinsale

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Miss Tarabotti felt such rules did not entirely apply to her, as she was a spinster. Had been a spinster for as long as…

— Gail Carriger

“The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She…

— Edith Wharton