Domestic Discord Quotes

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

Because the woman is more emotional, if we put the right of divorce in her hand she might divorce for the smallest reasons. But the man, known for bearing more responsibility, will not divorce except in states of extreme necessity

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar."Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.

When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.