Euripides Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  "Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

• The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

  Euripides

  Children, Hate, Wife

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

  Euripides

  Children, Wife, Firsts

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

• When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

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  Husband, Wife, Cheated

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

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  Mother, Husband, Heart

• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Wife

  Euripides (1836). “Euripides”, p.164

• The wife should yield in all things to her lord

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  Yield, Wife, Lord

  Euripides (1956). “Euripides: Plays: Alcestis”

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