Contemptuous Quote by Cordelia Fine

“Husbands are annoying at times, but they are a habit which grows on one, and life is extraordinarily dull without them.”

— D.E. Stevenson

“It was Mags' turn to snort. "But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th'…

— Mercedes Lackey

“Her husband sat silently while she talked, his hands fisted together, his half-smile set in concrete; he looked wisely down at the tablecloth. So…

— Margaret Atwood

“With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on…

— Saul Bellow

“I gaped. "You are not seriously that chauvinistic?" "Hmmm..." He stroked his chin dramatically. "Maybe not in real life." Hillbilly again. "But as your…

— Kristin Walker

“He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked…

— Herman Wouk

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude…

— Andrea D. Smith

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

“I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes I feel…

— Gillian Flynn

“Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in…

— Diana Gabaldon