Honore de Balzac Wife Quotations

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.