“My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.” KnowsWayGivingYearsMadeActingWifeGoes OnCostGiving UpEternalMarriedPerformancesTwentiesMy WifeTheatreSingersLastingExpensesOperaSpectatorsWagnerOpera Singers Book:The Waltz of the Toreadors Source: The Waltz of the Toreadors
“Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.” PoliticalSpeakWishPayWifeCostGloryDaughterCharityMotiveExtrasStrongestMinistryPhilanthropyExpendituresBreadwinner Author:Walter Bagehot
“I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".” IfsMadeJobsWifeCostKissingJokesMy WifeHeyBrownMurphyTold You SoMurphy Brown Author:Bebe Neuwirth
“Let me tell you something, I didn't become a lawyer because I like the law, the law sucks. It's boring, but it can also be used as a weapon. You want to bankrupt somebody? Cost him everything he's worked for? Make his wife leave him, even make his kids cry...yeah, we can do that.” WantKidsLawUsedCan DoWifeCryCostWeaponsLet MeYeahBoringLawyerAlly Mcbeal Author:Richard Fish
“I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.” WorldBelieveWarCountrySeemsEyeAbleAmericaMotherDifficultSituationWifeSacrificeCostLowsBlessedInspiredPerseveranceLiftsGloriousBlessBelieve In GodDefeatedVirginsGod BlessDevastatedDiscreditDifficult SituationsWives And MothersGod Bless YouParaguay Author:Pope Francis
“Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.” IfsLooksI CanLostChristLosesLove IsWifeLove YouCostLet MeDearCastsHostSheepTrust MeShepherdsI Love HimCrooksRebukeFaithlessLet Me Love You Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)