Husband Quotes - Page 4

• The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Afterlife, Divine Right

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

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• Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

  Jackie Gleason

  Marriage, Thinking, Wife

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• A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Looks, Half

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Law, Long, Wife

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  A Guide to Men prelude (1922)

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• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  Abigail Adams

  Wedding, Women, Power

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Player, Night

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  Laura Bush

  Views, My Husband, Point Of View

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• A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Anniversary, Guy

  'The Perfect Husband' (1949)

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• Being a husband is a whole-time job.

  Arnold Bennett

  Jobs, Whole

  'The Title' (1918) act 1

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• I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Couple, Fangs

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• A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

  Erma Bombeck

  Birthday, Marriage, Funny Friend

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Country, Soulmate

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Dad, Father, Toys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Rising, Literature

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• An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

  Booth Tarkington

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

  1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

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• I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Marriage, Thank You

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.610, Xist Publishing

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• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fear, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.113, Mondial

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• Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thank You, Thinking, Want

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

  Marie Corelli

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Family, Marriage, Anger

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• Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

  Cindy Crawford

  Sexy, Dad, Father

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• The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

  Britt Ekland

  Men, Easier, Ideals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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