Quotes About Relationships

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.

Because we think it improves our characters. But he is kind to people because he loves them; and they find him out, and are offended, or frightened.

It's a room that men have spoilt through trying to make it nice for women. Men don't know that we want—" "And never will.

The abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love

The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them

For all his culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it.

Much love. Modified love to Tibby. Love to Aunt Juley; how good of her to come and keep you company, but what a bore.

Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Mrs. Munt—such is human nature—determined that she would champion the lovers. She was not going to be bullied by a severe young man.

It was nothing to him that Nature had caught up this dropped stitch in order to continue her pattern. While he had love he had kept reason.

was not natural that men of different characters and tastes should be intimate, and

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart; men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help.

Preachers or scientists may generalize, but we know that no generality is possible about those whom we love; not one heaven awaits them, not even one oblivion.

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

Tibby is moderately a dear now," said Helen. "There! I knew you'd say that in the end. Of course he's a dear.

Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

The Wilcoxes were not lacking in affection; they had it royally, but they did not know how to use it. It was the talent in the napkin, and, for a warm-hearted man, Charles had conveyed very little joy. As he watched his father shuffling up the road, he had a vague regret—a wish that something had been different somewhere—a wish (though he did not express it thus) that he had been taught to say 'I' in his youth.

Girls like Lucy were charming to look at, but Mr. Beebe was, from rather profound reasons, somewhat chilly in his attitude towards the other sex, and preferred to be interested rather than enthralled.

I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

I mean the idea that women are always thinking of men. If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: "Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else." It's disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can't break it off for the sake of freedom.

When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love?—Marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you are right not to. But it would hurt a little less if I knew why." "Because"—a phrase came to her, and she accepted it—"you're the sort who can't know any one intimately.