Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Stockett

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

June Allyson

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

June Allyson

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

Julian Fellowes

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Ovid

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

Paul Lynde

I`m used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I`d make a terrible husband anyway.

Patti Stanger

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

Henrik Ibsen

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

Hedy Lamarr

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

Hedy Lamarr

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

Heidi Julavits

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

Heidi Julavits

My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

Hermione Gingold

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

Helen Rowland

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Helen Rowland

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

Helen Rowland

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

Helen Mirren

I always tell my husband, That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted, and he's just like, Yeah, yeah. Sure.

Helen Mirren

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

Helen Mirren

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

Heather Langenkamp

My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. Theyve always been best friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

Helen Andelin

One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

Helen Clark

I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Frank Langella

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

Maggie Gallagher

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?

Hans Rosling

My husband is my most valuable resource.

John Dryden

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Phyllis Diller

I met my husband when a friend sent him over to my house to cure my hiccoughs.

Phyllis Diller

Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.

Phyllis Diller

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.

Phyllis Diller

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

Phyllis Diller

Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.