Marital Conflict Quotes

Murder of a man by his wife was called treason (petty as distinguished from high treason), and was more cruelly avenged than was usually the case with high treason;

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

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

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.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

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

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to death, but sometimes I say, "What are we? Two injured creatures who can't talk to each other without going, like, 'Ahhh!'?"

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

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

Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.