Bachelorhood Quotes

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I'm single because I was born that way.