Bad Husband Quotes

• An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Husband, Men, Rising

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• No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Husband, Disease, Pox

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “Sabrina Jeffries - The School for Heiresses Series: Never Seduce a Scoundrel, Only a Duke Will Do, Beware a Scot's Revenge and an excerpt from To Wed a Wild Lord”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Husband, Thinking

  Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.146, Broadview Press

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• 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

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• She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

  Daniel Defoe

  Marriage, Husband, Too Late

  Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers (1840). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.76

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• We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

  Camille Paglia

  Husband, Father, Responsibility

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• The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sorry

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• If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

  Tony Abbott

  Husband, Father, Boss

  "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.

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• A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

  John Angell James

  Christian, Husband, Father

  John Owen, John Angell James (2010). “The Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy”

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• I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Marriage, Husband, Advice

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