Quotes by Tocqueville, Alexis De

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free pre >>

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never >>

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has los >>

Quotations about Wives

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. >>

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upo >>

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. >>

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Tocqueville, Alexis De