293 quotes
I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
Laura Bush
First Lady · American · b. 1946
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher Hampton
Playwright · British · b. 1946
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
Colleen McCullough
Author · Australian · b. 1937
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Claudia Johnson
First Lady · American · 1912 – 2007
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
Sarah Brady
Activist · American · b. 1942
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.
Connie Chung
Journalist · American · b. 1946
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Educator · German · 1767 – 1835
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Cleveland Amory
Historian · American · 1917 – 1998
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
Andrei A. Gromyko
Politician · Russian · 1909 – 1989
But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now.
My life really began when I married my husband.
Nancy Reagan
First Lady · American · b. 1921
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
Sarojini Naidu
Politician · Indian · 1879 – 1949
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
Poppy Z. Brite
Author · American · b. 1967
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.
Barbara Olson
Journalist · American · 1955 – 2001
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill
Writer · English · 1875 – 1941
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
Roberta Williams
Designer · American · b. 1953
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
Sue Grafton
Novelist · American · b. 1940
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
Robert Johnson
Psychologist · American · 1911 – 1938
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
Nobuo Uematsu
Composer · Japanese · b. 1959
I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio
Writer · English
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Susanna Moodie
Author · British · 1803 – 1885
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas R. Dewar
I have only one real hobby - my husband.
Florence Harding
First Lady · American · 1860 – 1924
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
Donald Cargill
Clergyman · Scottish
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
Betty Shabazz
Activist · American · 1936 – 1997
What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
Dewitt Bodeen
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
Novelist · British · 1855 – 1924
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller
Comedian · American · b. 1917
My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.
Jeri Ryan
Actress · American · b. 1968
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner
Comedian · American · b. 1955
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Meryl Streep
Actress · American · b. 1949
My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
Minnie Pearl
Musician · American · 1912 – 1996
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Olympia Dukakis
Actress · American · b. 1931
The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
Kelly Preston
Actress · American · b. 1962
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
Cindy Crawford
Model · American · b. 1966
I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.
Debra Messing
My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Roseanne Barr
Actress · American · b. 1952
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
Judi Dench
Actress · English · b. 1934
My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
Kathleen Turner
Actress · American · b. 1954
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
Akshay Kumar
Actor · Indian · b. 1967
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins
Actress · American · b. 1933
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
Patty Duke
Actress · American · b. 1946
My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
Lillie Langtry
Actress · British · 1853 – 1929