Spinster Love Quotes & Sayings

I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man. — Lynn Austin

A fire. An office fire. — Hugh Howey

Aunt Jettie: "yes, i'm wandering the earth seeking revenge on ben & jerry for giving me the fat a$$ and coronary & I give out love advice to the tragically lonely."
jane: "Is that an ironic eternal punishment for the lady who died an eighty-one year old spinster."
jettie: "single by choice you twirp."
jane: "banshee."
jettie: "bloodsucker. — Molly Harper

Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe. — Kate Bolick

To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls. — Shanna Swendson

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. — Sarah MacLean

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers. — Jared Spool

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic
I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method. — Kelly Link

Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So that time was a form of sustenance. On earth time was marked by the sun and moon, by rotations that distinguished day from night, that had led to clocks and calendars. The present was a speck that kept blinking, brightening and diminishing, something neither alive nor dead. How long did it last? One second? Less? It was always in flux; in the time it took to consider it, it slipped away. In one of her notebooks from Calcutta were jottings in Udayan's hand, on the laws of classical physics. Newton's theory that time was an absolute entity, a stream flowing at a uniform rate of its own accord. Einstein's contribution, that time and space were intertwined. He'd described it in terms of particles, velocities. A system of relations among instantaneous events. Something called time — Jhumpa Lahiri

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. — Park Chan-wook

A life passed amid gangsters, thieves, smugglers, and gamblers had granted Amelia an unerring nose for greed, vanity, and other assorted venal characteristics, and in Miss Sparrow, she smelled rancid pride combined with the bitter char of unrequited love. She smelled the lemon tang of loneliness mingling with despair. Just under Priscilla Sparrow's skin, Amelia could tell, a rosemary blast of judiciousness rippled, followed by the must decay of jealousy and a lingering note of envy - in short (and in spite of all of Miss Sparrow's better attempts with Dick Crane), the odors of a lifelong spinster. — Tiffany Baker

Politeness is the flower of humanity. — Joseph Joubert

Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made. — Amanda Bouchet

As great as it is to turn a monster caber, hit the game winning homerun, cause a fumble or clear a PR in weight over bar, there's a more amazing feeling. It's a feeling of victory ... true victory. This victory is eternal life through Jesus Christ. — Daniel McKim

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. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could ... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet. — Kylie Minogue

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. — Thomas Merton

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble. — Nora Ephron

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love. — Myrtle Reed