Quotes about husbands
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.
James C. Dobson -
I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families.
Emma Thompson - The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does.I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask.'Science,' he says vaguely.
Shannon L. Alder -
Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
John Adams - Addressed to His Wife
Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a mod
Roman Payne - Rooftop Soliloquy
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
Panio Gianopoulos - A Familiar Beast
For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.
Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
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 - Much Ado About Nothing
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 - Much Ado About Nothing
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
Andrew Galasetti - These Colors Don't Run
Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.
Randy Hain - Journey to Heaven: A Road Map for Catholic Men
My brothers, we have a special and distinct role as Christian men, fathers, husbands, and leaders in the family, in the Church, and in society at large. If we don’t step up, we run the risk of seeing our families overrun and absorbed by the surrounding culture. This is not acceptable. Start with prayer. Be faithful, be consistent, have courage, show humility, and remember . . . we are made for a heavenly home and not this world.
Ann Landers -
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an
Barbra Streisand -
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
Ouida - Countess von Szalras.
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant
Barbara Pym -
It was the ring on the left hand that people at the Old Girls' Reunion looked for. Often, in fact nearly always, it was an uninteresting ring, sometimes no more than the plain gold band or the very smallest and dimmest of diamonds. Perhaps the husband was also of this variety, but as he was not seen at this female gathering he could only be imagined, and somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
C.S. Lewis -
When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
Carolyn V. Hamilton -
I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.
Emmanuelle de Maupassant - The Gentlemen's Club
An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop,’ declares Elsie.
Sandra Gould - But Mostly Men
Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)
John le Carré - The Honourable Schoolboy
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.
Juvenal - The Satyrs Of Decimus Junius Juvenalis And Of Aulus Persius Flaccus
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
William Shakespeare - As You Like It
I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
Brandi Salazar - Spring Cleaning
He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land. The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure. Randy--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012
Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Evy Michaels -
I'm surrounded by men substituting presence for paper and powerFemales whose foundation is filtering their flaws for fameChildren teared up by more issues than tissues to on tear upLeaders promising yester year promises whilst subjects smoke lies like crackHusbands not ashamed to break their own rib giving dogs a good run for that boneFiends disguised as friends with loyalty as strong as spaghettiFamilies turned into factories, do as you're told, cave into the mold, become like the rest pf the f
Samuel E. Waldron - A Man as Priest in His Home
The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.
James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.
Marie Corelli -
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
Shannon L. Alder -
A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters
Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
Shannon L. Alder -
You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
Erin McCarthy - Hot Finish
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”“Because I love you. Because I love you so much I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time.”... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can’t possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re it.
Amit Kalantri -
Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.
Eloisa James - A Kiss at Midnight
Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
Shannon L. Alder -
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.
Anonymous -
All husbands are alike but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
French proverb -
A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.
Honore de Balzac -
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Ephesians -
Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.
E. W. Howe -
A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.
William Shakespeare -
Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
Lord Alfred Tennyson -
As the husband is the wife is.
G.M. Malliet - Wicked Autumn
...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).
Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
Shannon L. Alder -
Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don't have options that make them stay comfortable. You won't grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.