Wife quotations

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◆ A wife is a friend first, a lover second, and third and probably most important, a maid.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Love your wife, your servant and your enemy equally, and file her credit card bills under the ‘enemy' folder.

- Bauvard99

◆ Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that you yourself have forged into a bridle to curb your own abilities. To be a good wife is to enslave yourself to a lesser person. To be a good wife is to amputate your own power as surely as the parents of beggars hack off their children's feet for the greater benefit of the family.

- Philippa Gregory99

◆ You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they do life's menial tasks. For example, I saw my neighbor washing dishes, and I could immediately tell that he was an adulterer by the way my wife's naked body glistened through his kitchen window.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll be good at this. I doubt it, but who knows. The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would have never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and sheild it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

- Cormac McCarthy99

◆ It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

- Colin Firth99

◆ Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too high in the world to generalize that skill, which drives him to drink.

- Bauvard99

◆ Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk.

- Bauvard99

◆ It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual' (L'Individu). En Grèce antique, il n'y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir' (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife' is the same as the word for ‘Woman.' En anglais, nous n'avons aucun mot semblable à l'exquise ‘Jouissance!

- Roman Payne99

◆ When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

- Arthur Golden99

◆ Miss. My. Wife.

- Julia Quinn99

◆ They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

- Deanna Raybourn99