Wives
» “As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.”
– Roseanne Barr
» ”I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.”
– David Bissonette
» ”Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.”
– Vera Brittain
» ”The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.”
– Lord Byron
» ”She’d have you spew up what you’ve drunk when you were out.”
– Caecilius
» ”A woman asking ”Am I good? Am I satisfied?” is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.”
– Barbara Cartland
» ”Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
» ”If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!”
– Winston Churchill
» ”The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
– Cyril Connolly
» ”The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.”
– Edward Dahlberg
» ”Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.”
– Robertson Davies
» ”The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.”
– Thomas Robert Dewar
» ”It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
– Charles Dickens
» ”If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”
– Kirk Douglas
» ”Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
– John Dryden
» ”The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.”
– Andrea Dworkin
» ”When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
– Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
» ”That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.”
– George Eliot
» ”A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.”
– Benjamin Franklin
» ”Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.”
– Thomas Fuller
» ”He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.”
– Thomas Fuller
» ”I… chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
» ”Such a wife as I want… must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.”
– Alexander Hamilton
» ”In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.”
– Henrik Ibsen
» ”In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.”
– Henrik Ibsen
» ”A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
– Samuel Johnson
» ”Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.”
– Groucho Marx
» ”Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.”
– John Milton
» ”A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou
