Home Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

— Richard M. Nixon

“Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy…

— Kishore Bansal

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that…

— Anais Nin

WIFE, A woman who can be labelled intelligent when she sees through her husband -- she's understanding when she sees him through;

— Nikhil Saluja

You can make build a house but only your wife can make it a home.

— Mak_786

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

— Honore de Balzac

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

— Paul Valery

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The wife is the key of the house.

— George Herbert

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I want intelligence in my wife, but not too much she might see through me.

— Fred MacMurray

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

— Rose Henniker Heaton