Honoré de Balzac Quotes About Husband

A lover has all the good points and all the bad points which are lacking in a husband.[Un amant a toutes les qualités et tous les défauts qu’un mari n’a pas.]

A lover always starts from his mistress to himself; with a husband the contrary is the case.[Un amant procède toujours de sa maîtresse à lui, c’est le contraire chez les maris.]

A husband will be best avenged by his wife’s lover.[Jamais un mari ne sera si bien vengé que par l’amant de sa femme.]

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.[L’homme subjugué par sa femme est justement couvert de ridicule. L’influence d’une femme doit être entièrement secrète.]

A husband should never let his wife visit her mother unattended.[Un mari ne laissera jamais aller sa femme seule chez sa mère.]

A husband ought never to be the first to go to sleep and the last to awaken.[Un mari ne doit jamais s’endormir le premier ni se réveiller le dernier.]

A husband never loses anything by appearing to believe in the fidelity of his wife, by preserving an air of patience and by keeping silence. Silence especially troubles a woman amazingly.[Un mari ne risque jamais rien de faire croire à la fidélité de sa femme, et de garder un air patient ou le silence. Le silence surtout inquiète prodigieusement les femmes.]