250 Wife Quotes: Best Lines to Celebrate Your Wife

Whether you are celebrating an anniversary, writing a love note, or simply reminding her what she means to you, this collection of wife quotes covers every mood: witty one-liners from Groucho Marx and Rodney Dangerfield, timeless romance from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Pablo Neruda, and wisdom about what makes a good wife from Benjamin Franklin to the cultural history of wifehood.

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The Best Wife Quotes for Every Occasion

Famous Quotes About Wives

1. I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
2. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed. — Godfrey Winn
3. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. — Winston Churchill
4. My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce. Murder, yes, but divorce, never. — Jack Benny
5. The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde
6. Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. — Mae West
7. Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. — Woody Allen
8. Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. — Ogden Nash
9. Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
10. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. — Pauline Thomason
11. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t. — Sacha Guitry
12. When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. — Prince Philip
13. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. — Rodney Dangerfield
14. My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. — Henny Youngman
15. My wife has a great respect for me, I think. Or it could be fear. — Robert Orben
16. A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife lasts for the rest of your life. — Jim Samuels
17. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
18. Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen

Funny Wife Quotes

1. My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
2. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner
3. My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. — Rodney Dangerfield
4. The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him. — Attributed to Oscar Wilde
5. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. — Groucho Marx
6. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women. — Groucho Marx
7. Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. — Erma Bombeck
8. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. — Groucho Marx
9. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
10. A man is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
11. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henny Youngman
12. My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects. — Attributed to Les Dawson
13. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. — Oscar Wilde
14. Take my wife… please! — Henny Youngman
15. My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light. — Rodney Dangerfield
16. I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her. — Rodney Dangerfield
17. A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. — Attributed to Grace Hansen
18. A wife is a woman who sticks with her husband through all the troubles he wouldn’t have had if he hadn’t married her. — Anonymous

Romantic Quotes for Your Wife

1. I love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky. — E.E. Cummings
2. I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). — E.E. Cummings
3. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. — Pablo Neruda
4. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
5. In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you. — Pablo Neruda
6. I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow. — Rosemonde Gérard
7. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott
8. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. — Eden Ahbez
9. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Attributed to Aristotle
10. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. — Robert A. Heinlein
11. Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin P. Jones
12. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Attributed to Dr. Seuss
13. We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. — Attributed to Dr. Seuss
14. In your light I learn how to love. — Attributed to Rumi
15. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Attributed to Rumi
16. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. — Attributed to Gabriel García Márquez
17. You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. — E.E. Cummings
18. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein

Quotes About a Good Wife

1. Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. — The Bible (KJV)
2. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. — The Bible (KJV)
3. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — The Bible (KJV)
4. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. — The Bible (KJV)
5. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. — The Bible (KJV)
6. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. — The Bible (KJV)
7. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — The Bible (KJV)
8. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — The Bible (KJV)
9. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. — Attributed to Socrates
10. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. — Homer
11. My wife is my biggest cheerleader. — Anonymous
12. A good wife makes a good husband. — Anonymous
13. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. — Mahatma Gandhi
14. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. — Mahatma Gandhi
15. To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. — Mahatma Gandhi
16. Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses. — Francis Bacon
17. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. — Thomas Fuller
18. A wife is the heart of the home. — Anonymous

Short Wife Quotes

1. My wife is my best friend. — Anonymous
2. My wife, my life, my love. — Anonymous
3. My wife completes my world. — Anonymous
4. Thank you for being my wife. — Anonymous
5. Forever and always, my wife. — Anonymous
6. My heart belongs to my wife. — Anonymous
7. My wife is one in a million. — Anonymous
8. A wife is a man’s better half. — Anonymous
9. My wife’s love gives me wings. — Anonymous
10. A man’s best friend is his wife. — Anonymous
11. A happy wife makes a happy home. — Anonymous
12. My wife’s love is my superpower. — Anonymous
13. My wife’s patience is legendary. — Anonymous
14. My wife is the calm to my chaos. — Anonymous
15. My dearest wife, you complete me. — Anonymous
16. My wife is my forever and always. — Anonymous
17. Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. — Groucho Marx
18. I am forever grateful for my wife. — Anonymous

Anniversary Quotes for Your Wife

1. Happy anniversary, my love, my wife, my everything. — Anonymous
2. To my wife on our anniversary: I’d marry you all over again. — Anonymous
3. To my wonderful wife on our anniversary: every year with you is a gift. — Anonymous
4. She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies. — Lord Byron
5. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love. — William Shakespeare
6. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare
7. Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Brontë
8. You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. — Jane Austen
9. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen
10. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. — Paulo Coelho
11. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami
12. I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. — The Vow
13. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — The Fault in Our Stars
14. It was like coming home after a long trip. That’s how I felt when I met my wife. — Sleepless in Seattle
15. I hit the jackpot when I married my wife. — Anonymous
16. The best decision I ever made was marrying my wife. — Anonymous
17. Being a good husband is like being a good comedian. You need ten years before you can call yourself a beginner. — Jerry Seinfeld
18. The day I married my wife, my life truly began. — Anonymous

Quotes About Loving Your Wife

1. I love you. I am who I am because of you. — Nicholas Sparks
2. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. — Paulo Coelho
3. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. — Paulo Coelho
4. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo
5. To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. — Victor Hugo
6. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo
7. What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. — Victor Hugo
8. Every great love starts with a great story. — Nicholas Sparks
9. Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
10. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more. — Nicholas Sparks
11. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. — Nicholas Sparks
12. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. — Nicholas Sparks
13. Love wins, love always wins. — Morrie Schwartz
14. Love is the only rational act. — Morrie Schwartz
15. Death ends a life, not a relationship. — Morrie Schwartz
16. Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long. — Morrie Schwartz
17. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. — Morrie Schwartz
18. When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. — Paulo Coelho

Wife Quotes from Literature

1. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3. Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. — Emily Brontë
4. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. — Emily Brontë
5. He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Brontë
6. Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings? — Charlotte Brontë
7. I have for the first time found what I can truly love — I have found you. — Charlotte Brontë
8. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Brontë
9. I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. — Charlotte Brontë
10. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art. — John Keats
11. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. — John Keats
12. You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. — John Keats
13. A man’s a man for a’ that. — Robert Burns
14. My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here. — Robert Burns
15. O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, that’s newly sprung in June. — Robert Burns
16. Had we never lov’d sae kindly, had we never lov’d sae blindly, never met — or never parted — we had ne’er been broken-hearted. — Robert Burns
17. So we’ll go no more a roving so late into the night. — Lord Byron
18. They say that Hope is happiness; but genuine Love must prize the past. — Lord Byron

Quotes About a Strong Wife

1. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt
2. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt
3. I sustain myself with the love of family. — Maya Angelou
4. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. — Maya Angelou
5. A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. — Maya Angelou
6. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou
7. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
8. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. — Eleanor Roosevelt
9. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller
12. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. — Helen Keller
13. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. — Helen Keller
14. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller
15. Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller
16. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
17. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. — Rudyard Kipling
18. A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. — Rudyard Kipling

Sweet Quotes for Your Wife

1. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde
2. Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ — Attributed to Hafiz
3. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore. — Lord Byron
4. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings that then I scorn to change my state with kings. — William Shakespeare
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. 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
7. To love is to burn, to be on fire. — Jane Austen
8. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. — Paulo Coelho
9. You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them. — Haruki Murakami
10. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. — Rudyard Kipling
11. Look, I just wanted to take another look at you. — A Star Is Born
12. You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. — Me Before You
13. Behind my smile is my wife’s love. — Anonymous
14. Loving you was easy, my dear wife; being your husband is my honor. — Anonymous
15. You can have roots and wings, but you can’t ever go home again without your wife waiting. — Sweet Home Alabama
16. Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. — Joyce Brothers
17. Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. — Woody Allen
18. My wife is my North Star. — Anonymous

Quotes About Marrying Your Best Friend

1. The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. — A.P. Herbert
2. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. — Benjamin Franklin
3. Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. — Benjamin Franklin
4. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. — André Maurois
5. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — André Maurois
6. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret
7. The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
8. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. — Pearl S. Buck
9. Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
10. A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer
11. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. — Barbara De Angelis
12. A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy the difference. — Dave Meurer
13. A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace. — Darlene Schacht
14. The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. — Robert C. Dodds
15. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. — Francis Bacon
17. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. — Helen Rowland
18. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. — Helen Rowland

Wife Quotes from Movies

1. Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us togethew today. — The Princess Bride
2. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — When Harry Met Sally
3. I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Notting Hill
4. I’m the king of the world! — but I’d trade it all for one more day with you. — Titanic
5. Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it. — A Walk to Remember
6. You and me, we’re in a club now. — Up
7. Thanks for the adventure — now go have a new one. — Up
8. It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over. — The Notebook
9. You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. — Pride and Prejudice
10. Love knows nothing of rank or riverbank. It will spark the heart. — Shakespeare in Love
11. I think I love you. But, um, I don’t know what I’m going to do with you. — Four Weddings and a Funeral
12. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around. — Love Actually
13. Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. — Sleepless in Seattle
14. I want the fairy tale. — Pretty Woman
15. Ditto. — Ghost
16. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. — Casablanca
17. I love you more than I’ve ever loved any woman. — Gone with the Wind
18. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. — Gone with the Wind

Quotes About a Wife’s Love

1. Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran
2. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran
3. You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. — Kahlil Gibran
4. When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. — Kahlil Gibran
5. Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons. — Kahlil Gibran
6. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran
7. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
9. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
10. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
11. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
12. The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
13. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare
14. The best proof of love is trust. — Joyce Brothers
15. I will never get tired of making you fall in love with me. — 50 First Dates
16. You gave me a forever within the numbered days. — The Fault in Our Stars
17. My heart is, and always will be, yours. — Jane Austen

Inspirational Wife Quotes

1. We are asleep until we fall in love! — Leo Tolstoy
2. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy
3. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy
4. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. — Leo Tolstoy
5. And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people. — Leo Tolstoy
6. The law of love knows no bounds of space or time. — Mahatma Gandhi
7. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. — Mahatma Gandhi
8. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi
9. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
10. I wanna grow old with you. — The Wedding Singer
11. Here’s to the ones who dream. — La La Land
12. We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride. — About Time
13. Every day I thank God for my wife. — Anonymous
14. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. — Paulo Coelho
15. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. — Haruki Murakami
16. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for — and to do it so unconsciously. — Haruki Murakami
17. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. — Rudyard Kipling

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a nice quote for my wife?

A timeless choice is Jane Austen’s line “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” For something shorter, Audrey Hepburn’s “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other” works beautifully in a card.

How do I choose the right wife quote for an anniversary?

Match the quote to your years together: romantic classics like Jane Austen’s “You have bewitched me, body and soul” suit milestone anniversaries, while warm lines like “I’d marry you all over again” fit any year.

What does the Bible say about wives?

Proverbs 31 praises the virtuous wife: “Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies” (Proverbs 31:10, KJV), and Ephesians 5:25 instructs, “Husbands, love your wives.”

What is a funny quote about wives?

Groucho Marx joked, “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?” — and Henny Youngman’s classic “Take my wife… please!” never fails to get a laugh.

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