Widow Quotes · Page 2

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has arich widow.

— Christina Stead

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

— Alexander Herzen

Rich widows are the only second-hand goods that sell at prime cost.

— Vikrant Parsai

“For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

— Anonymous

I've gotten married, lost my job and become a widow on the same day.

— Donna Noble

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

— Courtney Love

“wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her,”

— Herman Melville

“Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.”

— Aly Grady

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the…

— Jackie Kennedy

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

— Lynn Caine

“Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a…

— Lynsay Sands

“I’d already been an orphan, a wife, and a mother. Now I was a widow. I was only three months past my…

— Donna Mabry

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

— Ruth Rendell

“You're too late. She's my wife." "No, she's your widow." His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in…

— Karan Mahajan

“You say you are an orpahn, or a widow or a widower, but when you have lost two sons on the same…

— Nathacha Appanah

I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people…

— Fiona Barton

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the…

— Guru Nanak

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see…

— Jane Austen

“Oberon’s been kidnapped along with one of the werewolves, and that’s why we’re all so upset. We’ll talk more tomorrow, and I…

— Kevin Hearne

“Men who start new relationships are judged less harshly. Women are expected to carry the torch of love, and when the flame…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or…

— Joseph Addison

“I guess I can’t say too much about Natasha because she won’t want much said about her in this forum… I don’t…

— Hawkeye Avengers

I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one…

— Patti Davis

“In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other…

— Elizabeth Berrien

“Why a widow should raise an attractive or pathetic image in one’s mind, or at the worst something rather bold and dashing,…

— Angela Thirkell

“Life as a widow, she thinks, will always be like this. The friends will go on proposing toasts for months (for years!).…

— Herman koch

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

— Horace Greeley

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

— Sacha Guitry

“Widow Magik would rinse this life away.”

— Heather Dearly

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

— Samuel Richardson

“...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...”

— R. Elizabeth Carpenter

“You will be a widow before the morning.”

— Georgette Heyer

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

— Joseph Joubert

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

— Courtney Love