Widow Quotes

• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Love
  • Husband
  • Emphasis

• I was a campaign widow.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Campaign
  • Widow

• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Mother

• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  

  Lisa See
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!

  

  T. B. H. Stenhouse
  • Children
  • Man
  • Married

• I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Record
  • Widow

• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Civil
  • Aphorism
  • Spinters

• I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Mother
  • Alone
  • Single

• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  

  Wiley Drake
  • Children
  • Mercy
  • Perish

• The widow becomes God’s Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Teach
  • To Go

• Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Job
  • Rock

• Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friend
  • Recognized
  • Widow

• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Role
  • Authority
  • Good Mother

• Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Widow
  • Mrs. Jennings
  • Jointure

• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Doctors

• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Taxes
  • Property

• Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Wife
  • Internet
  • Wasted

• 'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Deal
  • Describe
  • Widow

• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heaven
  • Spirit
  • Gave Up

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Play
  • Widow