272 Movie Quotes about Wives (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about wives, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

61 I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce.

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now

62 Oh, hello. I didn't recognize you without your wife in your arms. Come in.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

63 First, promise me you'll say yes. -Oh, no. That's how you got me to marry you.

Wilbur From Mr. Ed in Mister Ed

64 Your wife, my wife... They're all alike. They get married to escape their parents. Then they join clubs so they can escape their husbands.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

65 If you were a real man, she'd stay home nights.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

66 It seems it's illegal for a husband to catch a fish unless accompanied by his wife.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

67 Let's compromise. Supposing we leave just a couple of things behind? -Right. Two wives.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

68 Take my advice. When your wife begins to act unnaturally kind, kiss her, but don't take your hands out of your pockets.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

69 Have you seen my wife? She and my checkbook seemed to have gone out together.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

70 I called his home and then a bar I know about. His wife had been there, but she left about an hour ago, drunk.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)