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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Husband |
| But O ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all? Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 22. | 1 |
| And truant husband should return, and say, “My dear, I was the first who came away.” Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 141. | 2 |
| The lover in the husband may be lost. Lord Lyttleton—Advice to a Lady. L. 112. | 3 |
| God is thy law, thou mine. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 637. | 4 |
| The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 267. | 5 |
| And to thy husband’s will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 195. | 6 |
| With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 290. | 7 |
| The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, ’tis true, And lov’d his country. Pope—Epilogue to Rowe’s Jane Shore. | 8 |
| Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living. Pope—Epilogue to Rowe’s Jane Shore. | 9 |
| No worse a husband than the best of men. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 131. | 10 |
| I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office. Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 98. | 11 |
| That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. King Lear. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 103. | 12 |
| If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 67. | 13 |
| Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance. Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 146. | 14 |
| Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 155. | 15 |
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