Famous Quotes about Wives (57 Quotations)

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

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.

I… chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

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.

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.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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.

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.