William McFee Quotes

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

If any one leave his house, run away, and then his wife go to another house, if then he return, and wishes to take his wife back: because he fled from his home and ran away, the wife of this runaway shall not return to her husband.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

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.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

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.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.