Husband Quotes

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Agatha Christie)
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. View quote
Vivien Leigh
A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). View quote
James Thurber
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. (James Tiptree, Jr)
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. View quote
Arnold Bennett
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. View quote
Voltaire
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. (Honoré de Balzac)
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. View quote
Marie Corelli
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. View quote
Abigail Adams