Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 - William Shakespeare - Charlotte Bronte - Thomas Hardy - Louisa May Alcott - Greta Garbo - Charles Bukowski -
I’m single again! Oh behave! Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 starring Mike Myers & Heather Graham & Michael York & Robert Wagner & Rob Lowe & Mindy Sterling & Seth Green & Verne Troyer & Elizabeth Hurley & Will Ferrell et al, director Jay Roach
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream I i 72
But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. ibid. I i 76-78, Theseus to Hermia et al
But if thou live remembered not to be,
Die single, and thine image dies with thee. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 3
For having traffic with thyself alone,
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 6
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murd’rous shame commits. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 9
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Charlotte Brontë
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do. Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Don’t laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God’s sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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. Greta Garbo
I would be married, but I’d have no wife,
I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski