Quotations About / On: HUSBAND

  • 41.
    The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Mrs. Plynlimmon, in Howard's End, ch. 26 (1910).)
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  • 42.
    What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
    (Dewitt Bodeen (1908-1988), U.S. screenwriter, and Jacques Tourneur. Dr. Judd (Tom Conway), Cat People, when Irena wants to know what he will tell her husband about their psychiatric session (1943).)
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  • 43.
    Husband, I come!
    Now to that name my courage prove my title!
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 5, sc. 2, l. 287-8. She welcomes death like a bride going to her husband.)
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  • 44.
    When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is.
    (Zoë Fairbairns (b. 1948), British author. quoted in Observer (London, Jan. 9, 1983).)
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  • 45.
    Husband,
    who am I to reject the naming of foods
    in a time of famine?
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The God-—onger.")
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  • 46.
    Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,
    A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to a Lady, l. 71-2 (1735).)
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  • 47.
    A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
    (Richard Steele (1672-1729), British dramatist, essayist, editor. midnight letter to his wife, Sept. 27, 1708. The Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele, ed. R. Blanchard (1941).)
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  • 48.
    A literary woman's best critic is her husband ...
    (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911), U.S. novelist and short story writer. Chapters from a Life, ch. 11 (1897). Phelps's husband, Herbert D. Ward, was, like her, a popular author.)
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  • 49.
    Life begins to happen.
    My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes,
    and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes,
    (Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage," (l. 2-4). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 50.
    In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.
    (Jules Mazarin (1602-1661), Italian-born-French statesman, cardinal. Attributed remark (c. 1650).)
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