A Quote by H. L. Mencken

Wife: a former sweetheart.

H. L. Mencken

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Former Sweetheart Wife

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Dave Pelzer

My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.

Ving Rhames

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

George Jean Nathan

Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

Lauren DeStefano

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

H. L. Mencken

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

Burt Lancaster

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Shirley Temple

I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

Beverly Lewis

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

Kenneth Noland

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

Bobby Hull

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

Jay McInerney

I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

Jacki Weaver

I've come to understand that arguing with [my wife] about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words every woman wants to hear: "You're right, sweetheart.