Husband Quotes - Page 14

• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Wife, Danger, Endure

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• And to thy husband's will
  Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

  John Milton

  Thee, Submit

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.297

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• With thee goes
  Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound;
  Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

  John Milton

  Art, Thinking, Soil

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.477, BookCaps Study Guides

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• [On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

  Gwen Stefani

  Marriage, Couple, Perfect

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• If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Falling In Love, Love You, Should

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.79, Library of Alexandria

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• all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Every Man

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Home, Passionate Desire

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Giving Up, Work

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• I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Trying, Gothic

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.

  Marie Stopes

  Christian, Country, Government

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Father

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• I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!

  Bette Davis

  Party, Four, Married

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• Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

  Mae West

  Men, Two, Iron

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• Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

  Mae West

  Children, Singles, My Own

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• The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

  Wilson Mizner

  Marriage, Sleep, Boys

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• Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

  Plutarch

  Men, Wife, Slave

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• I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

  Rebecca West

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Loneliness, Women

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• I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.

  Fanny Brice

  Jobs, Home, Night

  "The Fabulous Fanny : The Story of Fanny Brice". Book by Norman Katkov (p. 71), 1953.

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• There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Wife, Healthy

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Father, Men

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Jobs, Wife, President

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• I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

  Francoise Sagan

  Good Love, Thinking, Differences

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• A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Wise, Way

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• Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

  Sara Coleridge

  Children, Heart, Wife

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.65

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