Quotes About Relationships

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Love can be a very frightening thing." "That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

Don't go," said Cedric. "Murder has made you practically one of the family.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

With women, love always comes first.

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!

as long as Mary can't cook and has those awful manners—well, we're safe, nobody else would have her." I perceived that my wife's methods of housekeeping were not so entirely haphazard as I had imagined. A certain amount of reasoning underlay them. Whether it was worthwhile having a maid at the price of her not being able to cook, and having a habit of throwing dishes and remarks at one with the same disconcerting abruptness, was a debatable matter.

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...' 'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?' 'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.

With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they were like.

The two words expressed volumes.

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,

You mean you really want to marry me?" she asked with the air of one getting a thing perfectly clear. "More than anything in the world," I said - and I meant it. "You mean, you're in love with me?" "I'm in love with you." Her eyes were steady and grave. She said: "I think you're the nicest person in the world - but I'm not in love with you." "I'll make you love me." "That wouldn't do. I don't want to be made.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

The happiness of one man and woman is the greatest thing in all the world." His

Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

Don't pretend to come out of the ark, Len. You know very well that an attractive young woman with an elderly husband is a kind of gift from heaven to a young man.