The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
J. August Strindberg
Related The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ... AUGUST STRINDBERG The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes. VIKRANT PARSAI Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistr... BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open GROUCHO MARX The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. GROUCHO MARX I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woolen WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say. ALFRED HITCHCOCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES True is the Lord and Master, and True is His Name, His Gracious Glance brings rapture. Those who are... GURU NANAK From a policy standpoint, they're like traffic lights or stop signs. RUDY HUSBAND The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut... ARCHIE BUNKER Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing f... JONATHAN EDWARDS Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing fa... JONATHAN EDWARDS My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the bes... LAUREN LEE SMITH In this world, there is one Husband Lord, all other beings are His brides. GURU GOBIND SINGH The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a litt... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband. 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I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments. PAT NIXON Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the... KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the... WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. JOHANN VON GOETHE When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The gender women and their title "Wife" and their Autocratic partner "Husband" is the greatest examp... DEVASKI Bear with me as a father to his son, as a friend to a friend, and as a husband to his wife, O Lord. BHAGAVAD GITA We never suspected that Neil was anything other than a loving father, a trusted son-in-law and a hus... JOSEPH FLAHERTY A boy with his girlfriend or a husband with his wife can be happy forever in their locked relationsh... ANUJ SOMANY You are the most beautiful creature on this earth.", said the blind husband to his wife. PARUL AGRAWAL A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way... HONORE DE BALZAC I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous hu... THURGOOD MARSHALL They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a f... CHANAKYA Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money han... EVA FIGES It is not good for a husband to talk of pretty girls in front of his wife. VIKRANT PARSAI Such property, as well as a gift subsequent and what was given ,to her by her affectionate husband, ... GURU NANAK I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his f... JAN ROBERTS Some weep and wail, separated from their Husband Lord, the blind ones do not know that their Husband... GURU GOBIND SINGH Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. SOURCE UNKNOWN Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ANONYMOUS Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal. LILIANA AKE and I have a hunch that [husband] Blake [Edwards] has got something up his sleeve. JULIE ANDREWS History will remember women who stood side by side with their husband in good and hard times. MATTHIAS PANTALEON You know you found the right one when you stop looking for "more. LAUREL HOUSE A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of th... JAMES THURBER He who is loyal to his wife lives own life like a true royal and intelligent, but she loves to rule ... ANUJ SOMANY A man who claims to be happy with his married life is either pretending or having no proper understa... ANUJ SOMANY The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, th... CHANAKYA A boy makes his girl jealous of other women. A gentleman makes other women jealous of his girl RANA MAGDY A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ERMA BOMBECK That bride, who is absorbed into the True Guru, shall never become a widow. Her Husband Lord is Beau... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our ... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husb... SHANA ALEXANDER When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husb... SHANA ALEXANDER And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; ... BIBLE Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or ph... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife... R. EMMETT TYELL The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their ti... WALT WHITMAN Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. BIBLE My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordina... PATRICK STEWART For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband ... AISHA TYLER If the husband once give way
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For his breeches he next day
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AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. AUGUST WILSON I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s ... AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. AUGUST WILSON I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human... AUGUST WILSON I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ... AUGUST KROGH [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int... AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive. AUGUST WILSON I feel free, man, AUGUST WILSON The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I... AUGUST WILSON [Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,... AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed. AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays], AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready. AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up! AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible. AUGUST WILSON Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ... AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get. AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a... AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me... AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson. AUGUST WILSON For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I... AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl... AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob... AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i... AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened. AUGUST WILSON American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have... AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year. AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ... AUGUST WILSON Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a... AUGUST WILSON In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it... AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools. AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi... AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent. AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr... AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers. AUGUST HANNING My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ... AUGUST WILSON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for. J.M. AUGUST I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... AUGUST WILSON The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh... AUGUST KROGH Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ... AUGUST WILSON