Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or beating:
“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the drawing-rooms in her face.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“There is no womans sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no womans heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
Alas, their love may be called appetite.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)