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“you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the”

— Scott Hahn

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Johann Sigurjonsson

“I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman’s adventures.”

— Amanda Quick

“I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You can believe I took you to be my wife. To honor, respect and protect, for all the days of our life.”

— Mira Lyn Kelly

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

— Hilary Mantel

“Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.”

— Helen Simonson

An obedient wife commands her husband.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There will be no kneeling in front of me tonight, Mistress Isabel. You told me you wanted control, so tonight I’ll give you control.…

— Ella Dominguez

“I had merely announced to her my intention of keeping a man-servant,”

— Charles Dickens

“Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her…

— Leonard Tourney