Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or beating:
“A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:4.
“Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
Mildred Pierce: No, what?
Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
—Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)