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.

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.

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

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

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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