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Quotes About Relationships

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine. CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch.
~ Dorothy Parker
L'amour c'est comme du mercure dans la main. Garde-là ouverte, il te restera dans la paume ; resserre ton étreinte, il te filera entre les doigts.
~ Dorothy Parker
Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
~ Dorothy Parker
By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite,undying-Lady,make a note of this: One of you is lying
~ Dorothy Parker
Every love's the love before In a duller dress.
~ Dorothy Parker
The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock
~ Dorothy Parker
Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine; The second love was water, in a clear white cup; The third love was his, and the fourth was mine; And after that, I always get them all mixed up.
~ Dorothy Parker
Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. I
~ Dorothy Parker
De Profundis Oh, is it, then, Utopian To hope that I may meet a man Who'll not relate, in accents suave, The tales of girls he used to have?
~ Dorothy Parker
Love is like quick-silver in the hand, Sylvie. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.
~ Dorothy Parker
They don't like you to tell them they've made you cry. They don't like you to tell them you're unhappy because of them. If you do, they think you're possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games.
~ Dorothy Parker
She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.
~ Dorothy Sayers
George Herbert said, "He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
~ Doug Batchelor
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
~ Douglas Adams
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
~ Douglas Adams
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
~ Douglas Adams
It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.
~ Douglas Adams
Charming man, he said. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one...
~ Douglas Adams
As if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
~ Douglas Adams
I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time.
~ Douglas Adams
One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.
~ Douglas Adams
Here's an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?
~ Douglas Adams
Asking people about their opinions is a very good way of making friends. Telling them about your own opinions can also work, but not always quite as well. Nowadays
~ Douglas Adams