Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes

A man's home is his wife's castle.

The woman’s own choice makes such a man her husband; yet being so chosen, he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him, yet in a way of liberty, not of bondage.

You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

I do like to belong to a man.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.