William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Bad husbands will make bad wives.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Anniversary, Husband, Wife

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1855). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.165

• When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Kings, Men

• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

• Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Smart, Heart, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.273

• An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Home, Intelligent, Wife

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