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Quotes About Relationships

Fond as he was of Pongo, Lord Ickenham could not see him as a breaker of hearts. Yet it appeared plain that his loss had left a large gap in this girl's life.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I've said it before, and I'll say it again--girls are rummy. Old Pop Kipling never said a truer word than when he made that crack about the f. of the s. being more d. than the m.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never at him;
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But dragons are one thing and aunts are another.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?' 'Yes,' said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I knew what it felt like. I was once in love myself with a girl called Elizabeth Shoolbred, and the fact that she couldn't stand me at any price will be recorded in my autobiography.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You know how it is. Love's flame flickers and dies, reason returns to her throne, and you aren't nearly as ready to hop about and jump through hoops as in the first pristine glow of the divine passion.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I left him thinking it over. If I were a bookie, I should feel justified in offering a hundred to eight against. You can't have approached him properly. I might have known you would muck it up, said young Bingo. Which, considering what I had been through for his sake, struck me as a good bit sharper than the serpent's tooth.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Young Reggie Foljambe to my certain knowledge offered him double what I was giving him, and Alistair Bingham-Reeves, who's got a valet who had been known to press his trousers sideways, used to look at him, when he came to see me, with a kind of glittering, hungry eye which disturbed me deucedly. Bally pirates!
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You don't think, John, that you might ultimately come to love Agnes Flack?' 'I do not.' 'Love frequently comes after marriage, I believe.' 'So does suicide.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Kimbuck gave tongue. She was Lord Evenwood's sister. She spent a very happy widowhood interfering in the affairs of the various branches of her family.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Whatever his faults, he had strength; and after her experience of married life with a weak man, Lady Jane had come to the conclusion that strength was the only male quality worth consideration.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Když žena ví vÅ¡e, pak pravidelnÄ› ?ekají nÄ›jakého muže maléry.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It is a curious law of Nature that the most undeserving brothers always have the best sisters.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Don't do it. Women are the devil, whether they marry you or jilt you. Do you realise that women wear black evening dresses that have to be hooked up in a hurry when you are late for the theatre, and that, out of sheer wanton malignity, the hooks and eyes on those dresses are also made black? Do you realise...?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We shall get into that series of 'Husbands and Wives Who Work Together.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I think that you would find a steady married man an improvement on these wild, flower-pot-throwing bachelors. If it would help to influence your decision, I may say that my bride-to-be is Miss Halliday, probably the finest library-cataloguist in the United Kingdom.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins.
~ P.G.Wodehouse
About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you
~ Pablo Neruda
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that's why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV
~ Pablo Neruda
Para que nada nos separe que nada nos una.
~ Pablo Neruda
My love has two lifetimes to love you. That's how I can love you when I don't, and still love you when I do.
~ Pablo Neruda