Wife Quotes by Samuel Johnson

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

— Samuel Johnson

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

— Samuel Johnson

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of…

— Samuel Johnson

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as…

— Samuel Johnson

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

— Samuel Johnson

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in…

— Samuel Johnson

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over…

— Samuel Johnson

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time…

— Samuel Johnson

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation…

— Samuel Johnson

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed…

— Samuel Johnson

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to…

— Samuel Johnson

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.…

— Samuel Johnson

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is…

— Samuel Johnson

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it…

— Samuel Johnson

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,…

— Samuel Johnson

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her…

— Samuel Johnson