“I'll confess it is rather fun being courted by your own husband.”
Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer
On marriage, p. 118
Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted" (December 1922)
“I'll confess it is rather fun being courted by your own husband.”
Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer
On marriage, p. 118
Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted" (December 1922)
Nasreddin (1208–1284) philosopher, Sufi and wise man from Turkey, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes
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Güngör Dilmen, I, Anatolia (1984), Act II; tr. Talât Sait Halman (1991)
Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress
Everyone Loved Irene, by William Frye http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/vanity-fair-march-2004/ Vanity Fair, 2004]
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“You must be a bastard for I knew your mother's husband and he was a gentleman and honest man.”
Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) American politician
In Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
L’homme qui nous parle est l’amant, l’homme qui ne nous parle plus est le mari.
Part I, ch. VII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
Protima Bedi (1948–1998) Indian model and dancer
On her taking up Odissi dance in Orissa and the resultant separation from her husband, quoted in "I have been a hippie all my life".
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.