Wife Quotes by H. L. Mencken

15 Wife quotes by H. L. Mencken

Mencken’s incisive style surfaces in fifteen terse remarks that question and illuminate the social expectations placed on a wife.

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Wife: a former sweetheart.

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When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

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A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

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Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

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Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

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When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

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Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

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Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

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Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

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“Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.”

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Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or…

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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is…

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Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the…

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No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,…

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue…

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Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

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