Source: Advice to a Lady (1731), Line 112.
“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
St. 25. <br class="br"> Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
Fragments, sec. 10
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)
“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)
“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress
Everyone Loved Irene, by William Frye http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/vanity-fair-march-2004/ Vanity Fair, 2004]
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Variant: Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Vol. 4, letter 17.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
