Quotes About Relationships

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. "Ah, Miro, I'm glad he wasn't your father. Because then I'd be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

How do you know there wasn't something that he touched kindly? Someone who loved him, who was blessed by his love? Destroyed everything he touched – that's a lie that can't truthfully be said of any human being who ever lived.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Who, being loved, is poor?

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.