Quotes About Relationships

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?

She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.

she could recall nothing about Charles except the dying-calf look on his face when she told him she would marry him.

She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.

there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy. Oh, all the tricks that never failed to work—except with Ashley.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

You must not say these things, Scarlett! You mustn't. You don't mean them. You'll hate yourself for saying them, and you'll hate me for hearing them!

Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold.

But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I think—I think," she began hesitantly, "that I've always been lonely where women were concerned. It isn't just my working that makes Atlanta ladies dislike me. They just don't like me anyway. No woman ever really liked me, except Mother. Even my sisters. I don't know why, but even before the war, even before I married Charlie, ladies didn't seem to approve of anything I did—

As to why I have made no further advances,' he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, 'I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn't be much fun for me to kiss you now and I'm quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children.

To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.

Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!

She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself

But if true love carries any weight with you, you can be certain Miss Suellen will be rich in that if nothing else.

But she felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did. Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'oh, how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having.

Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.

Oh, Pa," cried Scarlett impatiently, "if I married him, I'd change all that!" "Oh, you would, would you now?" said Gerald testily, shooting a sharp look at her. "Then it's little enough you are knowing of any man living, let alone Ashley. No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.