John Steinbeck Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

  John Steinbeck

  Wife, Faithful, Attention

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.103, Penguin

• I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

  John Steinbeck

  Spiritual, Sweet, Passion

• I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Heart, Men

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

• My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Fall, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.57, Penguin

• A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

  John Steinbeck

  Thank You, Children, Wife

• The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Wife, Trouble

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.451, Penguin UK

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