Wife Quotes

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.

They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?

Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you're a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.