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Quotes About Wife

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~ Shana Alexander
More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester's wife?
~ Sharon Kay Penman
You can't. He has it shielded. Besides, he's a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you'll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn't have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She's my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You're seriously not joking?" – Sundown "Really? How many more times are you going to ask me that? I could be on a beach right now with my wife, son, and daughter, baking in the sun while they frolic and play. Am I? No. I'm here, and I want nothing more than to yank you around with bullshit 'cause this gets me off more than my wife running in a bikini." – Zarek
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.
~ Countee Cullen
Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf.
~ Dave Foley
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
~ Edgar Winter
How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!
~ Emily Dickinson
I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.
~ Theobald of Bec
It was anything but reassuring to have to tell one's wife, in "Case of real Danger . . . fly to the Woods with our Children.
~ John Ferling
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
~ John Gay
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
~ John Gay
the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Mary the wife of Clopas, who stood by the cross at the crucifixion of Christ.
~ John Guy
Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
~ John Heywood
I take to be political power; that the power of a magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his servants, a husband over his wife, and a lord over his slave.
~ John Locke
At this time, about the only thing that was still regarded as perverted was a public display of affection toward one's wife.
~ John Maddox Roberts
of every Perfection to endear him to a Wife's Affections. — But, notwithstanding, I look on myself as the most unhappy of my Sex in out-living him, I must so far obey the Dictates of my Discretion, as
~ Eliza Haywood
Neglectful that I am, I forgot to tell you before that you heard quite rightly about Mr. Thackeray's wife, who is ill so. Since your question, I had in gossip from England that the book 'Jane Eyre' was written by a governess in his house, and that the preface to the foreign edition refers to him in some marked way. We have not seen the book at all.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Claudia was either unaware of her expression, or didn't care that he knew of her interest in his nakedness. Once he had hoped to find a mistress who would look at him with such undisguised longing. He had never dared hope to find lust in a wife. The perfect woman sat before him, and she was his. Life was very good indeed. He propped his hands behind his head. "I am at your mercy, my lady. Do with me as you will." "You wish to be ravished, Baron?" "'Tis my fondest desire.
~ Elizabeth Elliott
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Christopher had married his receptionist, he'd still be here in town. Although the girl had been stupid. Olive could see why he'd passed on her. His wife was not stupid. She was pushy and determined, and mean as a bat from hell.
~ Elizabeth Strout
What right has the husband to require submission from his wife? None, unless God had appointed it.
~ Arthur W. Pink