"Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty—even if your wife is about to give birth."
— Sicilian Mafia code of conduct
Irene: Besides, no married detective could afford a $300 suit.
Kojak: That's easy: I'm on the take.
Kojak: That's easy: I'm on the take.
— Kojak, "The Summer of '69"
"My boyfriend must think I'm the scum of the Earth for pulling a Houdini on the worst possible day, ever. You go on rampages and have anniversaries. I get some dingy safehouse, Netflix and booze. You've ruined my life, Summers."
— Agent Brand in the fic Back Into The Fold
"I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband; namely, the kingdom of England."
"This job has taken me in every hole in my fucking body. Malcolm is gone, you can't know Malcolm, because Malcolm is not here! Malcolm fucking left the building fucking years ago! This is a fucking husk. I am a fucking host for this fucking job."
— Malcolm Tucker, The Thick of It
"If I got married, I'd have to take a dictaphone, two secretaries and four corporation counsellors along on the honeymoon. I'd be unfaithful to my wife every night with vice presidents, boards of directors, slide-rule accountants... This is my home. No wife would ever understand it."
— Linus Larrabee, Sabrina
"You're married to your job Chase, and I don't date married men."
— Natalia Kowalski, LEGO City Undercover
How could he explain that a Space Ranger was married to his job? That there could never be room in his life for the things of which ordinary men dreamed — a woman to love, a family to raise, a house with a flying car on the roof and an A-bomb shelter in the basement.
Bert: You know, beggin' your pardon, but the one my 'eart goes out to is your father. There 'e is in that cold, heartless bank day after day, hemmed in by mounds of cold, heartless money. I don't like to see any living thing caged up.
Jane: Father in a cage?
Bert: They makes cages in all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped, some of 'em, carpets and all.
Jane: Father's not in trouble. We are.
Bert: Oh, sure about that, are ya? Look at it this way. You got your mother to look after you, and Mary Poppins, and Constable Jones, and me. Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles, he don't. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplainin', and alone and silent.
Michael: He's not very silent.
Jane: Michael, be quiet! Bert, you think Father really needs our help?
Bert: Well, not my place to say. I only observe that a father could always do with a bit of help.
Jane: Father in a cage?
Bert: They makes cages in all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped, some of 'em, carpets and all.
Jane: Father's not in trouble. We are.
Bert: Oh, sure about that, are ya? Look at it this way. You got your mother to look after you, and Mary Poppins, and Constable Jones, and me. Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles, he don't. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplainin', and alone and silent.
Michael: He's not very silent.
Jane: Michael, be quiet! Bert, you think Father really needs our help?
Bert: Well, not my place to say. I only observe that a father could always do with a bit of help.
Batman: I'll do everything I can to rehabilitate you.
Catwoman: Marry me.
Batman: Everything except that. A wife, no matter how beauteous or affectionate, would severely impair my crime-fighting!
Catwoman: Marry me.
Batman: Everything except that. A wife, no matter how beauteous or affectionate, would severely impair my crime-fighting!
"I decided after one bad marriage to bury myself in Science."
—Ann Anderson, It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Leif Tronstad: I pity her husband.
Colonel Skinner: Her husband went down with HMS Prince of Wales last December, sunk by the Japanese. Still missing. She works a lot.
— The Heavy Water War
Julie wrote to me that her husband had been "emotionally unfaithful for twenty years." But she wasn't talking about another woman. "He stood me up for concerts, dinners, vacations—always putting his work first. My sister says, at least he didn't cheat on me, but his job was more demanding than any mistress."
"I can't change what happened to Captain Tanner. Am I sad my friend is gone? Absolutely. But he let the job overtake him. He let it destroy himself and his family, and then left us to pick up the pieces. We have to watch ourselves, Supergirl. As keepers of the peace, we shouldn't let what we do distract us from our own families."
— Inspector Henderson, Death & the Family
Harvey: Know what really gets me about being a war photographer?
Driver: What?
Harvey: I never have time to play with my kids.
Driver: So how many have you got?
Harvey: None.
Driver: What?
Harvey: I never have time to play with my kids.
Driver: So how many have you got?
Harvey: None.
— The Hire, "Powder Keg"
Aldarion: "Smiths may smithy, and horsemen ride, and miners delve, when they are betrothed. Therefore why may not mariners sail?"
Meneldur: "If smiths remained five years at the anvil few would be smiths' wives."
Meneldur: "If smiths remained five years at the anvil few would be smiths' wives."
