It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

- Marilyn Monroe

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

- I Don't Remember You, Stephanie Lennox

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

- Shannon L. Alder

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

- Nancy E. Turner

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.


- Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91., Dark Jar Tin Zoo

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

- Thomas Wolfe

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

- Rodney Dangerfield

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

- Minority Report, H.L. Mencken

Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife means to me. In my heart, we are wed. In my soul, you are mine.

- Sinful, Charlotte Featherstone

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

- The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

- Oscar Wilde

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

- Colin Firth

O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

- The Complete Life of John Hopkins, O. Henry

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

- G.K. Chesterton

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

- Old Man's War, John Scalzi

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

- Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy, Pawan Mishra

Miss. My. Wife.

- To Sir Phillip, Julia Quinn

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

- Shannon L. Alder

Commitment is Circumstances

- Leju Thomas

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

- Virchand Gandhi

That's what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don't believe anymore

- Age of Myth, Michael J. Sullivan

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

- Deanna Raybourn

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

- A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

- Sylvester, Georgette Heyer

It's important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you're asking for problems.

- An Unforgivable Secret, J.E.B. Spredemann

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

- E.W. Howe

Don't make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You're only on that pedestal because they put you up there.

- Kamand Kojouri

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

- Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut

Weddings have logic, but Marriages have emotions

- Dear Wife, Santosh Avvannavar

Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

- Carey Wallace

...when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

- The American Heiress, Daisy Goodwin

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

- Amit Kalantri

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete

- John Steinbeck

من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟

- قالوا, أحمد خيري العمري

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

- Richard Belzer

The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn't necessarily mean that they are cheating on you; and the fact that you do doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana