#Wife

"You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like."

"Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife."

"If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people."

"On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!"

"I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?"

"Love your wife, your servant and your enemy equally, and file her credit card bills under the ‘enemy’ folder."

"My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true."

"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."

"My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving."

"My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife."

"The only reason my wife agreed to marry me is because Christian Bale wasn’t around to propose to her."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."