"Cuckold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I will tell thee, do not you know that whosoever is made a cuckold by his wife, either he knows it, or he knows ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... cuckold!" he went on. "I might be afraid to take his wife from him, but I wouldn't be ashamed to ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... other paternosters of women; such as —firstly the estates would not have to be returned to the king; that never had a child been brought more innocently into the world, that this, that that, a thousand things; until the good cuckold relented, and Blanche, seizing ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac
... reasons, not to be controverted, have sprung up around Arthur Dillon. For Horace Endicott there is nothing in that old life but public disgrace. Do you know that I hate that fat fool, that wretched cuckold who had not sense enough to discover what the uninterested knew about that woman? I would not wear his name, nor go back to his circle, if the man and woman were dead, and the secret ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... who is an amorous blockhead, a credulous cuckold, and, (though painted as a brave fellow, and a soldier,) a mere Tom. Essence, and a quarreler with his best friend, dies like a fool, (as we are led to suppose at the conclusion of the play,) without either ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson
... remarkable. The Doctor wore powder, a custom unknown in this country: one party would say, "He has got lime in his head to kill the vermin;" another would observe that "He was old or grey-headed." The Doctor was fond of his bottle, and some said skurren bel akkaran, i.e. "The[142] son of a cuckold is drunk." Others would bawl out, Wa Tebeeb washka't dowie elmoot, i.e. "O, doctor, canst thou cure death?" To which he replied, "No."—"Then," returned they, "thou art no doctor!" On the following morning at sun-rise we proceeded, and reached L'Araich at ...
— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny
... beautiful consort, While unto that is given also a beautiful son. Gallus is charming as man; for sweet loves ever conjoins he, So that the charming lad sleep wi' the charmer his lass. Gallus is foolish wight, nor self regards he as husband, 5 When being uncle how nuncle to cuckold he show. ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus |
