“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”
The Relapse, Act III, sc. ii (1697)
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His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
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Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't 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. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.
“No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.”
Eric Berne (1910–1970) Canadian psychiatrist
Quoted in a review of Berne's book Sex in Human Loving (1963), "Talks on Sex by the Gamesman" http://books.google.com/books?id=jVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA16&dq=LIFE%20Dec%2018%2C%201970&pg=RA1-PA7#v=onepage&q=berne&f=false by David Reuben, M.D., Life, Vol. 69, No. 25, 18 December 1970.
“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)
“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Without Dogma
4 August
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman. There is something in my relations to Aniela of which I never heard or read; there is no getting out of it, no end. A solution, whether it be a calamity or the fulfilment of desire, is something, but this is only an enchanted circle. If she remain immovable and I do not cease loving her, it will be an everlasting torment, and nothing else. And I have the despairing conviction that neither of us will give way.
Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946) British rabbi
Genesis II, 18 (p. 9)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
“A married man seeks to please his wife and not God.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)