Wife Quotes - Page 68
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
James M. Cain (2010). “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, p.20, Hachette UK
J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.169, Penguin
Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK
... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.
Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"
Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
"A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.