(54 quotes found)
“It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”
Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria)
“Widow. The word consumes itself.”
Sylvia Plath
“I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]”
Roseanne
“I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill”
Victoria Wood
“Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep”
Benjamin Franklin
“He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her”
Nathaniel Smith
“The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.”
William Shakespeare
“You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.”
Alan Ball
“A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.”
Proverb
