Wifely Duty Quotes

#1. Never belittle love

Preeti Shenoy

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. 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

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Hilary Mantel

#6. 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

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

Letitia Dean

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

Bobby Sands

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

Wallis Simpson

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

K. Bromberg

#11. 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

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

Andrew Bennett

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

John Steinbeck

#14. 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

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

Billy Corgan

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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

Dan Bergstein

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

Johnnie Dent Jr.