Wifely Duty Quotes

#1. This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#3. I like the idea of Warrior Flitwick running to save the day by screaming, Let's do some charm harm, my snitches!

Dan Bergstein

#4. Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#5. Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable flavour and succulence.

P.D. James

#7. Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

#8. He quickly pulled back and shook out his mane, in what he hoped was a very dignified manner. Yes, he was a horse, but he was still a man. Except anatomically. And he would be treated accordingly, with the utmost respect.

Cynthia Hand

#9. A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete

John Steinbeck

#10. A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

Andrew Bennett

#11. Never belittle love

Preeti Shenoy

#12. I've never had to work so hard for something I never thought I wanted.

K. Bromberg

#13. You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Wallis Simpson

#14. We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

Bobby Sands

#15. We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.

Letitia Dean

#16. Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

A.C. Gaughen

#17. Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

Hilary Mantel

#18. Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case ... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#20. Mrs Carey sighted as a woman but obey as a wife.

W. Somerset Maugham