Widows Quotes · Page 3

The tragedy of Mormonism, is a single death makes a dozen widows

— Anonymous

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

— Anonymous

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet.

— Chino XL

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

— Lionel

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

— Alphonse Karr

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad,…

— Christopher Titus

“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and…

— Ned Kelly

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have…

— Chris Christie

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow…

— Vincent Price

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary…

— Honore de Balzac

“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,…

— Yann Martel

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and…

— Frank Zappa

You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat…

— Dave Barry

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these…

— Carlos Fuentes

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list…

— Stana Katic

Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and…

— Jean Baudrillard

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…

— Mark Twain

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its…

— Robert A. Heinlein

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the…

— Frank Chodorov

Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in…

— Anne Bronte

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

— Cassandra Clare

I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and…

— Ned Kelly

“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I…

— Alber Elbaz

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

— Honore de Balzac

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

— Siri Hustvedt

“What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey…

— Rudyard Kipling

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

— Tobsha Learner

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow,

— John Stark

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

— George Santayana