Wife Beating

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] (1783–1842)

    There is no woman’s sides
    Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
    As love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart
    So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
    Alas, their love may be called appetite.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)