#husbands

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. ↗

— John le Carré

#circumspection #husbands #marriage #married-life #separation

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. ↗

— Juvenal

#curtain-lectures #husbands #marriage #wives #marriage

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#blame #contributing #gnawing #guilt #husbands

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#chiefly #good #husbands #lovers #their

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#care #child #child care #control #economic

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#even #few #galling #government #husbands

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#carrying #greatest #heads #home #husbands

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#hoard #husbands #many #men #their