Quotes About Relationships

Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

The Beddingfeld girl was deep in conversation with the missionary parson, Chichester. Women always flutter round parsons.

I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.

That's how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn't Desdemona charm Othello by the way she listened?

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them." I agreed and he went on. "Curious the people who marry each other, too, isn't it?

L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

Sheila's about the only young girl in this place and she naturally assumes that she ought to have it all her own way with the young things in trousers. Naturally it annoys her when a woman, who in her view is middle-aged and who has already two husbands to her credit, comes along and licks her on her own ground. [...] No, I think it's age daring to defeat youth that annoys her so much!

I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.

I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

Marriage will cure me, I expect. It always seems to have a very sobering effect on people.

In some ways I really think that men are beasts.

Qué tontas somos las mujeres! Siempre lo he pensado. Supongo que ahora dormiré con su retrato debajo de la almohada y soñaré toda la noche con él. Es terrible ver que una no es fiel a sus principio.

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But — it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.

But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.

But Amyas was like all the Crales, a ruthless egoist. He loved Caroline but he never once considered her in any way. He did as he pleased.

Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction.

Family strength is a marvellous thing.

Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.