Samuel Richardson Husband Quotations

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.