Arthur Conan Doyle

“ It is degrading to a woman to have to apply to her husband every time she wants a sovereign. On the other hand, if the wife has any money, she should have the spending of it. If she chooses to spend part of it in helping the establishment, that is all right, but I am sure that she should have her own separate account, and her own control of it.’
‘If a woman really loves a man, Frank, how can she grudge him everything she has? ”

“ If my little income would take one worry from your mind, what a joy it would be to me to feel that you were using it!’
‘Yes, but the man has his self-respect to think of. In a great crisis one might fall back upon one’s wife - since our interests are the same, but only that could justify it. ”

“ I knew that you were going to say something against that poor vegetable. It costs so little.’
‘On an average, I have no doubt that it costs threepence a day. Come now, confess that it does. Do you know what threepence a day comes to in a year? There is no use in having an accountant for a husband, if you can’t get at figures easily. ”

“ The easiest way of saving is to do without things.
17. If you can’t, then you had better do without a wife.
18. The man who respects his wife does not turn her into a mendicant. Give her a purse of her own. ”