wife:
1. A female spouse ; a woman joined in marriage to a man .See wife [SYN] for synonyms.
3. Any of a pimp's family of prostitutes.
4. The more passive or feminine of a homosexual couple .
QUOTES:
(1) Henry (Charles Laughton) in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933): ' How many blunders, stupidities and cruelties has a man to pass before he finds his happiness in a wife .'
(2) The groom, George Kitteridge (John Howard), his future wife Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), and her ex-husband C .K. Dexter-Haven (Cary Grant) in The Philadelphia Story (1940):-- George: ' But a man expects his wife ... '-- Tracy: ' To behave herself, naturally .'-- Dexter: ' To behave herself naturally .'
(3) Charlie Pike (Henry Fonda) and Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) in The Lady Eve (1941):-- Chalie: ' Lots of men are more careful in choosing a tailor than they are in choosing a wife .'-- Jean: ' That's probably why they look so funny .'
(4) William Demarest as Regret in Sorrowful Jones (1949): ' I've got three mouths to feed. Two on my wife .'
(5) Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) to his wife Debra Higgins (Jeanne Crain) in People Will Talk (1951): ' The woman has yet to be born who doesn't in her heart believe she'll make her husband a better wife than he has any possible right to expect .'
(6) Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) in Viva Zapata (1952): ' I believe that love cannot be bought except with love and that he who has a good wife wears heaven in his hat .'
(7) Maria Danreuther (Lola Lollobrigida) in Beat the Devil (1954): ' All husbands like their wife to seem attractive to other men .'
(8) Frank Broderick (Henry Fonda) and Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) in Sex and the Single Girl (1964):-- Frank: ' What do you call-it when you hate the woman you love? '-- Bob: ' A wife .'
(9) The Emcee (Joel Grey) in Cabaret (1972): ' I only yesterday said: I want you for my wife . And she said: Your wife , what would she want with me? '
(10) Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) in House Calls (1978): ' Still beats being married . I mean a date you can look at as a non-recurring expense; a wife is overhead .'
(11) R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) speaking about Roger's wife , Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): ' His wife is poison, but he thinks she's Betty Crocker .'
(12) Frank Slade (Al Pacino) in Scent of a Woman (1993). ' Be careful! When the wife gets restless, the wife gets greasy .'
(13) Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ' A woman who gets bed and boredom .'
(14) Tom Watson (Bud Abbott) and George Bell (Lou Costello) in Lost in Alaska (1952):-- Tom: ' George, do you know my wife's an angel? '-- George: ' You're lucky. Mine's living .'
(15) Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): ' A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
(16) John Barrymore (as himself) in Playmates (1941): ' - Wives are funny, aren't they? - Definitely. Ask the man who owns one .'
(17) The Sheik Ilderim (Hugh Griffith) to Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) in Ben-Hur (1959): ' One wife!? One god, that I can understand, but one wife? This is not civilized, it is not generous .'
Quotes Containing wife:
'Hey! Asshole! This is the ultimate fuck you. I just poked your wife .' Bill Babowsky (Richard Dreyfuss) in Tin Men (1987)
Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Harry (Billy Crystal) in When Harry Met Sally (1989): - Jess: 'Marriages don't break-up on account of infidelity . It's just a symbol that something else is wrong.' - Harry: 'Really?! Well, that symbol is fucking my wife .'
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