Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Slippery bunch, angels, hiding their nasty little sins behind curtsies and compliments, Bibles and badges.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.