Bachelorhood Quotes

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

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

William Shakespeare

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LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the g

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 heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

William Shakespeare

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LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a

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 valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Jane Austen

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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at

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

William Shakespeare

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