J. B. Priestley Quotes

Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.

I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

I enjoy campaigning because my husband makes the speeches and I receive the roses.

To have my wife stand in front of me on television and give her love and support to me, I will never forget it, and I owe that to her for the rest of my life.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

My wife keeps me sharp. You know, she ain't going to let me get comfortable with this "Ice Cube" stuff.