“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen
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British novelist and poet 1820–1849Related quotes

“The lover in the husband may be lost.”
Source: Advice to a Lady (1731), Line 112.

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
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.”
St. 25.
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.”
Fragments, sec. 10
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
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)

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“You attract what you need like a lover”