Life Quote by Alexander Dumas

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“Bride had become the centre of his world. He was nothing without her. If he had to obey her every word for the rest…

— Gena Showalter

“By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.”

— Ian McEwan

“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad…

— Susannah Spurgeon

“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“he could not bear that a woman, and his wife at that, should not bow before him — this would have degraded him. He…

— Maxim Gorky

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“It is written that a wife shall be submissive to her husband. It is nowhere written that his mistress should be.”

— Johann Sigurjonsson

“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.”

— Elmore Leonard