Husband and wife Quote by Victor Hugo

“Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...”

— Victor Hugo

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“She was only forty-seven according to the file his aide had put together for him, but had gone totally gray by thirty-two. That early…

— Nalini Singh

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a…

— Lord Byron

“one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive’.”

— Lisa Hilton

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no…

— Walter Scott

“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.”

— Stephanie Barron

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

— Debra Webb

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since…

— Marshall Thornton