41 Quotes About Husbands

There's something timeless about the bond shared between spouses, and throughout history, many have tried to capture its essence through words. Whether it's a light-hearted quip, a heartfelt sentiment, or a piece of wise advice, quotes about husbands offer a unique glimpse into the complexities and joys of marriage. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 41 quotes about husbands that celebrate love, partnership, and everything in between. Whether you're looking to reflect on your own relationship or simply enjoy the musings of others, these quotes promise to inspire and entertain. Dive in, and let the words of poets, writers, and thinkers resonate with your heart.

1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Jane Austen

2. “What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.” - Ken Follett

3. “Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.” - Peter Scott

4. “That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not surewe got it right.He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully.Early next dayI wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had publishedin a small quarterly magazine.Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us.Or should I say ideal.Neither of us had ever seen Venice.” - Anne Carson

5. “The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.” - Suzanne Finnamore

6. “The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.” - Suzanne Finnamore

7. “I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?" I would like to do a straight exchange. But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.” - Suzanne Finnamore

8. “I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.” - Suzanne Finnamore

9. “I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.” - Suzanne Finnamore

10. “They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.” - Suzanne Finnamore

11. “I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.” - Suzanne Finnamore

12. “I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.” - Suzanne Finnamore

13. “Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.” - Suzanne Finnamore

14. “He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.” - Suzanne Finnamore

15. “I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.” - Sonia Rumzi

16. “When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.” - Philippa Gregory

17. “Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband.” - Charlotte Brontë

18. “Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful.And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.” - Sherry Thomas

19. “I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.” - L.M. Montgomery

20. “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?” - Stephanie Lennox

21. “What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply."The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?"He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.” - Lisa Kleypas

22. “A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it.” - Stephen M. Irwin

23. “I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.” - Meg Cabot

24. “In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?""You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?” - Julia Quinn

25. “I am the keeper of my husband's history.” - Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

26. “I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?” - Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

27. “Real men can carry carpets, Claire. Keep that in mind when looking for a husband.” - Isaac

28. “A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.” - E.W. Howe

29. “But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.” - Thomas Hardy

30. “Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.” - Oscar Wilde

31. “Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?”“Ah specs it’s kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes’ knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An’ givin’ dem whut dey thinksdey wants saves a pile of mizry an’ bein’ a ole maid. An’ dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird’s tastes an’ no sense atall. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin’ a lady ef he suspicions she got mo’ sense dan he has.” - Margaret Mitchell

32. “Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.” - Carey Wallace

33. “Commitment is Circumstances” - Leju Thomas

34. “Terri had already gotten her panties into a bunch just from one little phone call, so he knew coming at her too much too fast would be more trouble than it was worth. He couldn’t exactly beat her into submission, not right away anyway. Although he did enjoy seeing her get all riled up. Nothing tugged at a man’s heartstrings like a pair of mascara smeared eyes. Randy from Spring Cleaning-- Coming Summer 2012” - Brandi Salazar

35. “It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.” - Margo Lanagan

36. “She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.” - Margaret Rome

37. “...they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...” - John Geddes

38. “Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.” - Cecelia Ahern

39. “What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?” - Jamie McGuire

40. “I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.''If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.” - Anne Brontë

41. “I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.” - Ann Landers