Top 32 Quotes About An Ideal Husband: Famous Quotes & Sayings About An Ideal Husband

#1. My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.

Martin Shaw

#3. The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!

Elif Shafak

#4. I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

Samantha Bond

#5. An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Booth Tarkington

#6. I think a writer is not an ideal husband ... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Roy Blount Jr.

#7. He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#8. The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.

Deana Martin

#10. You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch.

Gregory Maguire

#11. As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

Helen Garner

#12. Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde

#13. I'm sort of religious, actually. God can be interpreted many ways, I think. If others were more open-minded about what god can be, instead of just calling it god and saying it works this way or that way, we'd all be in a better situation and a better place.

Max Bemis

#14. The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

#15. When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jerry Falwell

#16. First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

J.G. Ballard

#17. Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

Oscar Wilde

#18. There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Oscar Wilde

#19. This idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies.

Daniel Lieberman

#20. My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.

Tyler Oakley

#21. My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the
planner and the dreamer.

Lucille Ball

#22. The workplace is designed around the male life cycle and there is no allowance for children and family. There's a fragile new cultural ideal - that both the husband and wife work.

Lynn Povich

#23. The ideal husband? There couldn't be such a thing. The institution is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

#24. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

Oscar Wilde

#25. Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Oscar Wilde

#26. We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

John Piper