| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5387 |
| QUOTATION: | A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. Meditation Number XII, Canel (1829).
Balzac’s generalizations about wives. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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