Enemy Quote by Plautus

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

— H. L. Mencken

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts…

— Lemuel K Washburn

“Obviously, a wife must obey her husband in all important matters. If he continues believing his admonitions are his own ideas, so much the…

— Elisa Braden

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

— John Dod

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

— Hilary Mantel

“The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”

— John Milton

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

— Oscar Wilde

When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to…

— Anthony Trollope

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

— Elbert Hubbard

An obedient wife commands her husband.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

— Saadi

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

— Robert Jordan