Quotes About Conjugal

Mrs. Bantry reflected a minute and then applied an urgent conjugal elbow to her sleeping spouse.

Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!

nationalism and religion as the unholy spouses from whose fetid conjugal bed nothing but evil can crawl forth

Ah, so much to ponder. But not now. Now was the time for the conjugal blessing of this new abode.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

She loved her lord or thought so, but that love   Cost her an effort, which is a sad toil, The stone of Sisyphus, if once we move   Our feelings 'gainst the nature of the soil. She had nothing to complain of or reprove,   No bickerings, no connubial turmoil; Their union was a model to behold, Serene and noble, conjugal, but cold.

She wore a black blouse with a white lace collar and had an animated sternness about her that suggested a conjugal situation similar to waking up each morning on a medieval rack.

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

she perceived several couples whose too hearty glee suggested nothing conjugal;

returning to Russia, where he met his first wife, Ekaterina. She thought Heinrich [Schliemann] was richer than he was, and when she discovered her mistake, she withheld conjugal rights. This had the desired effect, and he cornered the market in indigo, to such effect that Ekaterina bore him three children.

My dear fellow, society only laughs at such a desperate conjugal predicament. Where it pities a lover, it regards a husband as ridiculously inept; it makes sport of those who cannot keep the woman they have secured under the canopy of the Church, and before the Maire's scarf of office. And I had to keep silence.