Orson Welles Quotes

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

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

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

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

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

No worse a husband than the best of men.