96 Quotes About Wives

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure....

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

You are happy in your marriage because a Side-chick is giving him the peace you can not. Look, when you win every argument with your husband, just know someone else is losing arguments with him.

You should bring your wife here, she said. There are a lot of guys around. Somebody would take her away from you and when you got over it you'd be a lot happier.

Gangsters too have families. They have a wife they return to.

To not feel at home in her family home is the beginning of the bigger story of society and its female discontents.

   'Not all women have the failings that I must have had, given that I have not succeeded in tying you to me,' she said, and added, with a sigh, 'or else not all husbands are like you.'   'Wives...false, jealous, domineering, flirtatious, or devout...husbands, wicked, inconstant, cruel or despotic: that in a nutshell is how all individuals on earth are, Madame; do not expect to find any paragons of virtue.'   

I've been married for a long time and there are days when I still wonder, 'Excuse me, but who is this man?