81 Quotes About Widows

  • Author Nancy Mitford
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    Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

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  • Author Guru Nanak
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    If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

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  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
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    I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

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  • Author Ovid
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    We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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  • Author Melissa Rosenberg
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    I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

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  • Author Mick Ralphs
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    Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

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  • Author Ruth Rendell
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    I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

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  • Author Frank Zappa
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    The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

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