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Wife Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first…
- I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare…
- Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
- JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that…
- The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
- No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
- My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.
- When a woman marries againit is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife.…
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- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. — Christian Bale
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams