Bribe Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image “Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bribe Family Make Marriage She Think
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“as long as Mary can’t cook and has those awful manners—well, we’re safe, nobody else would have her.” I perceived that my wife’s methods… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“A (house)wife now performs the tasks once distributed between servants of different rank or undertaken by the maid of all work. Her ‘core’ jobs… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market… — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
