Singles 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 ...

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.

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.