Quotes About Relationships

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said. All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it. But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart. Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead—still less because one had once liked them very much.

Detachment is a rare virtue, and very few people find it lovable, either in themselves or in others. If you ever find a person who likes you in spite of it-still more, because of it-that liking has very great value, because it is perfectly sincere, and because, with that person, you will never need to be anything but sincere yourself.

She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy--perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.

A novelist couldn't possibly marry all the people from whom she wanted specialised information.

Harriet agreed that intellectual women should marry and reproduce their kind; but she pointed out the English husband had something to say in the matter and that, very often, he did not care for an intellectual wife.

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

Beautiful people are often rather boring, don't you think? Less beautiful people might rather like to think so, said Harriet. But you know what I mean, my dear. All those wealthy men choosing a wife like a piece of furniture or a fine picture, to furnish the house, and then having to listen to her at breakfast twenty years later.

Gestures which delight in the right person are so indecent when performed by the wrong. In fact, it is only when we contemplate the loves of unpleasant people that we see the indecency of passion.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them." ? Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them