Honore de Balzac Quotes About Wife
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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
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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.
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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
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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.
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
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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.
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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.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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