“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
On marriage, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress.”
Saki (1870–1916) British writer
"A Young Turkish Catastrophe"
Reginald in Russia (1910)
“The epithet should be the mistress of the substantive, never its lawful wife.”
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) French novelist
L'épithète doit être la maîtresse du substantif, jamais sa femme légitime.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 3; translation p. 338.
Linda Howard (1950) American writer
Source: Mr. Perfect
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage