13 quotes found
“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”
“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow...”
“A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”
“He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?" "You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.”
“Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!”
“A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.”
“A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.”
“The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.”
“A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”
“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
“Xav sprinkled olive oil on his lettuce. 'Lola was very particular that it all had to fit properly.' 'Lola?' squeaked Diamond. I wanted to warn her not to rise to the bait Xav was dangling in front ...”
