Quotes About Relationships

girls with more involved dads develop greater self-esteem.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

What strange creatures brothers are!

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

Beware how you give your heart.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.