Children Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There wasn’t an Oclander woman alive who would obediently accept her father choosing a husband for her. While she would tolerate his suggestions, a…

— Vivienne Savage

“Every father has to choose and choose again how involved he will be with his children. Why does he have a choice when his…

— Michael Thompson

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives,…

— Andrew Porter

“He wanted a daughter who looked like his wife. His wife had informed him she wanted a son who looked like her husband. God…

— Kristen Ashley

“His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got…

— Ian McEwan

“He was a man. He should have acted more like one - thought about how all that self-indulgence might affect his daughter, if not…

— Linda Lael Miller

“But he'd never pictured himself as a father and had had no idea that there was an emotion that was a combination of pride,…

— Erin Nicholas

“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how…

— Marcel Proust