The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.Denis Diderot
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.Tom Stoppard
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.Honoré de Balzac
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.Honoré de Balzac
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.Honoré de Balzac
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.Honoré de Balzac
