22 quotes found
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
“LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heav...”
“LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of val...”
“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify ...”
“I'm single because I was born that way.”
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.”
“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.”
“[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.”
“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath...”
“Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married...”
“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.”
“I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become ...”
“Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.”
“you areas fleetingly beautifulas a mothers tearsand a fathers pranksa brothers bachelorhoodand a best friends bad mooda brides glittering jittersand a handsome strangers smile.”
