Wives Quotes

501 Wives quotes by 393 unique authors

Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their… — Charles Dickens
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… — James Joyce
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in… — Kage Baker
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less… — C.S. Lewis
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but… — Aldous Huxley
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred de Vigny
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women… — Julian Barnes
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. — Chuck Palahniuk
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support… — John Irving
The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar… — David Sheff
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. — Charles Bukowski
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible… — Thomas Hardy
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. — Benjamin Franklin
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first… — Louisa May Alcott
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what… — Terry Pratchett
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their… — Andrzej Sapkowski
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed… — Frank Beddor
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and… — John Green
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of… — Frank Herbert

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