Quotes About Relationships

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...

May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend....

For such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those who are not entirely beautiful.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.

Love lasteth long as the money endureth.

You did something for me I couldn't do for myself. You loved me for who I am.

I've had friends that couldn't be my lover. I've had lovers who couldn't be my friend. I can't wait for the day I find the person that is both.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Siraj's most serious error was to alienate the great bankers of Bengal, the Jagat Seths. The Seths' machinations had brought Aliverdi to power, and anyone who wanted to operate in the region did well to cultivate their favour; but Siraj did the opposite to the two men of the family

I don't know," said the papa. "We shall just have to keep on and see. Perhaps when they meet the Prince and Princess we shall find out. I don't suppose a boy would fall in love with a boy." "No," said the niece; "but he might want to go off with him and have fun, or something." "That's true," said the papa. "We've got to all watch out.

At Winchester we were discouraged from standing too close, from making, or seeking, personal disclosure. The other day I met a fellow Wykhamist - someone I'd known for forty years - and after the preliminaries, I said: 'Are you happy?'He took a pace back and squinted with surprise: 'Are you pulling my wire?' he said. 'That's none of your business'. At Winchester we were none of us each others business. We cracked on.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear the little song of their purring throats, and you'll never know what they think, when you say hello.

True love is the parent of humility.