Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.