Widow quotes

- Jim Craig: “United in death” the minister said.
- Spur: Superstition.
- Jim Craig: It's a nice thought, Spur.
- Spur: It's a great comfort to widows and fools. There's more to life than death, Jim.
Tom Burlinson - Jim Craig
Kirk Douglas - Spur

“I'm a widower. That's like catnip to a cat, in a town where the ladies outnumber you ten to one.”
James Garner - Murphy Jones

“When looking to travel incognito, it's safest to travel as a widow. People are always anxious to avoid conversation about death. Widows scare them. And there's no better disguise than fear.”
Millie Bobby Brown - Enola Holmes

“My psychiatrist says I suffer from the halo effect, the tendency of widows to idealize their dead husbands. He says it keeps me from falling in love again. He has a point, but I can't imagine I'll ever stop loving Louie.”
Cybill Lynne Shepherd - Corinne Jeffries

“I was wrong about you, Mrs. Lambert. Meeting the widow of a man like Lake, well, I was expecting a siren, a harpy, a shrew. But you, you have decency, dignity, what my father called gumption.”
Mark Wahlberg - Lewis Bartholamew

“- Never Wears Bra: You lucky, Smoking Fox. White Knife all man. Bravest of all braves.
- Smoking Fox: Not brave. Foolish. I want to be wife, not widow.”
Jackie Sandler - Never Wears Bra
Julia Jones - Smoking Fox

“Come on. Let's pay our respects to the grieving widow before she falls flat on her face, drunk.”
Sir Sean Connery - Jessie

“My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.”

Vivien Leigh - Scarlett - Their Daughter

“- Earl Rose: I deal with widows everyday! The remains will stay here.
- Roy Kellerman: I don't think so. The remains... What did you call it, your body? The hell with you, and the hell with your law.”
Rory Cochrane - Earl Rose
Tom Welling - Roy Kellerman

“- Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?
- Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.”

Eric Bana - Hector
Brad Pitt - Achilles

“The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows. Husbands, dead husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.”
Joseph Cotten - Charlie Oakley

“There's one good thing in being a widow, isn't there? You don't have to ask your husband for money.”
Frances Carson - Mrs. Potter

Ed hates anything that keeps him from going to the movies every night. I guess I'm what's called a "Garbo widow".
Louise Closser Hale - Hattie Loomis

- Interpreter: Sir is married?
- Anna Leonowens: A widow. Can you please explain to me why you call me "Sir"?
- Interpreter: Women do not stand in the presence of His Excellency.

Afdlin Shauki - Interpreter
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Mrs. Doubtfire: Once the father of your children is out of the picture, the only solution is total and lifelong celibacy.
- Miranda Hillard: Celibacy?
- Mrs. Doubtfire: Yes. And if you violate that, heaven forgive you! Good luck.”
Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire
Sally Field - Miranda Hillard

“- Angelo Perino: I gather you didn't enjoy being a racer's wife.
- Lady Bobby Ayres: Well, let's just say I was a widow long before my husband died.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Angelo Perino
Lesley-Anne Down - Lady Bobby Ayres

“Are you divorced or widowed? Did your husband commit suicide? I could understand that.”
Woody Allen - CW Briggs

“When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? Why don't we say he was widowered?”
Meg Ryan - Annie Reed

“- Henry Lowndes: If you call her a widow, that proves that even you thought you were dead.
- Bill Cardew: I'll show you how dead I am.”

Melvyn Douglas - Henry Lowndes
Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew

“- Terry Leather: This is The Major. Major Guy Singer. Final member of our team.
- Bambas: I don't know this man. Who are you?
- Guy Singer: None of your business.
- Terry Leather: No secrets around here. Major's a con artist, usually elderly widows.
- Guy Singer: There's no need to bring that up.”
Jason Statham - Terry Leather
Alki David - Bambas
James Faulkner - Guy Singer

“That's how my twelfth husband died. So, now I'm a widow. I mean, I've always been a black widow, but now I'm a black widow widow.”

Bonnie Hunt - Rosie

“- Frank Wagstaff: There's nothing wrong between me and the college widow.
- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: There isn't, huh? Then you're crazy to fool around with her!”
Zeppo Marx - Frank Wagstaff
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff

“- Nora Charles: I think it's a dirty trick to bring me all the way to New York just to make a widow of me.
- Nick Charles: You wouldn't be a widow long.
- Nora Charles: You bet I wouldn't!
- Nick Charles: Not with all your money...”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“- John Clasky: It must be hard being a widow, doing it on your own.
- Flor: Why do you think I am a widow?
- John Clasky: I guess I thought... that would be the only way a guy would leave you.”
Adam Sandler - John Clasky
Paz Vega - Flor

“- Duke of Argyll: Tell me, MacGregor, is this matter of honor concerning your wife?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: It's concerning me, Your Grace. Mr. Cunningham and I have matters outstanding.
- Duke of Argyll: She will not thank you for making her a widow, honor or no.”

Andrew Keir - Argyll
Liam Neeson - Rob Roy