Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Husbands

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) British Royal

Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919–2016) Hungarian-born Film Actress

You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet

I’ve never yet met a man who could look after me. I don’t need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins (b.1933) English Actress

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don’t make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-American Film Actress, Cabaret Performer

I’ve had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend’s my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
John Lennon (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist

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.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

I think there’s something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It’s humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher Hampton (b.1946) British Playwright, Screenwriter

A husband is a guy who tells you when you’ve got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

You know I won’t turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
William Hogarth (1697–1764) English Painter, Engraver

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.
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

An early-rising man… a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927–2014) Colombian Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah’s husband. It’s tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68) American Actress

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

At first a woman doesn’t want anything but a husband, but as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverb

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer

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