Jane Wyman Quotes

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

My unpleasantness was political, not personal. I don't believe in carrying political disputes into social life.

I ain't rocking with Trump, but politics I kinda keep to myself.

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

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

A husband may forget where he went on his honeymoon, but he never forgets why.

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife.