Ideal Husband Quotes

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

A good husband makes a good wife.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.