Wife Less Quotes

#1. Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?

Edith Wharton

#2. They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

Anita Shreve

#4. Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

Jenny Lawson

#6. I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

John Scalzi

#7. I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Ilie Nastase

#8. You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

Elaine S. Dalton

#9. I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

#11. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

#12. In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Sara Sheridan

#13. Let's just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made me really miss my wife.

Taye Diggs

#14. Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#15. If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#16. Dillon, if you're trying to impress me, You're going about it the wrong way. I much prefer a guy with a little more modesty and a lot less wife. -Tate

Colleen Hoover

#17. Oh. Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister's wife.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#18. When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

Barbara Corcoran

#19. We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. Annella would sooner spill my blood than court me. Furthermore, I like my women a little less spirited. I don't want to have to fear that my wife would put a blade to my throat in the middle of the night. Hell, I'd have to sleep with one eye open.

Victoria Roberts

#21. My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

Henny Youngman

#22. I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Helen Slater

#23. My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Wil Wheaton

#24. or less in bits. Constance, his wife, was then twenty-three years old,

D.H. Lawrence

#25. My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.

Brandi Carlile

#26. Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

Ilie Nastase

#27. Strike had recently helped several wealthy young women rid themselves of City husbands who had become much less attractive to them since the financial crash. There was something appealing about restoring a husband to a wife, for a change.

Robert Galbraith

#28. No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.

Sophie Kinsella

#29. Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#30. I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.

Andy Daly

#31. Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

Ranvir Shorey

#32. love after all is indivisible. Loving one more doesn't mean loving another less.

A.S.A Harrison

#33. I really couldn't care less about that part. Can't you guess which character Bella would identify with?"
It took Jacob a minute. "Oh, Ugh. The third wife. Ok I see your point.

Stephenie Meyer

#34. Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi

James S.A. Corey

#35. For Anne and our cub,
for making me and my life less beastly

Adam Nevill

#36. Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've ... um ... entertained his wife.

Jojo Moyes

#37. Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Charles Caleb Colton

#38. If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Hans Kung

#39. My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

Donna Ball

#40. Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

Henny Youngman