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Letter "H" » Her husband
«There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.»
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Wives
| Keywords:
designs, exact, Her husband, of her own, ordered, settled, specification, specifications, weighed
«The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
elected, first lady, Her husband, public servant, servant, unpaid
«The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.»
«So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.»
«Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
afterward, Her husband, marries, month, strike
«The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Girl, contemptible, Her husband, servant girl
«She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
described, Her husband, ladies, occupation, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, shafting, shafts, trains
«There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fact, facts of life, future, her, Her husband, husband, invariably, In a, lover, past, past life, real, The Facts of Life, The Lovers, tragedy, woman
«On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
American state, dinners, Her husband, idle, on the whole, partly
«Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Her husband, owes, prince, The Prince
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