Husband Quotes - Page 7

• I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.

  Zadie Smith

  Bleeding, Pressure, Chapters

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• Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

  Homer

  Horns, Racket

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• Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

  George McGovern

  Running, Divorce, Wife

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• Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

  George Eliot

  Men, Order, Class

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.540, Penguin

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• I don't really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.

  Kate Moss

  Daughter, Dog, Doors

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• I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

  Dwyane Wade

  Dad, Pride, Terrible

  "Dwyane Wade Tackles The Hard Topics: ‘I Was Probably A Terrible Husband’" by Drenna Armstrong, madamenoire.com. May 18, 2013.

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Crazy, Years, Cities

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

  Gwen Stefani

  Lying, Lazy, Stuff

  "It's Good To Be Gwen Stefani". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 09, 2004.

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• We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Thinking, Wife, Romance

  "Patti Stanger: What I’ve Learned About Love". Interview with Juli Alvarez, www.eharmony.com. August 28, 2012.

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Self, Dying

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• Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Family, Wife, Peaceful

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• I know several couples who experienced adultery in their marriages, but because in each case there was a wife who was willing to pray and a husband open to allowing God to change and restore him, the marriages are still intact and successful today.  Only prayer, a submitted heart, and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit can work those kinds of miracles.

  Stormie Omartian

  Prayer, Couple, Heart

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.69, Harvest House Publishers

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Party, Home, Drunk

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• What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Running, Together, Say Anything

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Humility, Law

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

  Brigham Young

  Daughter, Sex, Men

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.268

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• Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

  Alan Bennett

  Father, Artist, Humanity

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

  Stefan Zweig

  Dark, Giving, Secret

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Ties, World

  "Estefan: Cuba won't be free until Fidel dead". "Boston Herald" Newspaper, March 12, 2008.

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• I tell him [husband Emilio] you are lucky I am not a jealous woman, because look at the women he's worked with: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Madonna. These very sexy women. I trust him.

  Gloria Estefan

  Sexy, Jealous, Lucky

  Dutch television interview, March 1, 2007.

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• In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

  Laura Bush

  Nuclear, Contrast, I Can

  Dutch-Belgian newspaper "Metro", May 2, 2005.

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• Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Party, Mean

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover”, p.17

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Night, Men, Wife

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

  Phyllis Diller

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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, Too Late, Married

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

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