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Wife Quotes - Page 41

People who are so dreadfully devoted to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

"The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

"Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics