Accustomed Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those…

— Henry Fielding

“He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together…

— Edith Wharton

“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst…

— Norbert Jacques

“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives,…

— Andrew Porter

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“As far as I could tell his problems with his wife were pretty typical, they’d run out of things to say to one another.…

— Chassis Albuquerque

“How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things…

— Kristen Hannah

“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