Quotes About Relationships

Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

It was sad enough to see her father drift away, but it was crushing to find her respect for his intellectual worth vanish with him.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

Monstrous tenderness gets tangled in guilt differently from intentional cruelty. More deeply. And for longer.

Je sais, dit Adina, les hommes avaient des femmes, les femmes avaient des enfants, les enfants avaient faim.

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

I have been a live girlfriend to twenty one bachelors and a vengeful ex- girlfriend to another three men keen to return to bachelorhood.

Those who hate themselves, cannot love or trust others.

Love is so great... So why does it have to go so wrong?

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one. The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep.

Makenna's "He does" clashed with Cogswhallop's "She does." They looked at each other, and she saw the love in his eyes -- but he saw the truth in hers. "He does," she told the Hierarch firmly.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

By making eye-contact, getting down to your child's level, offering a touch, or using a tone of your voice that conveys a desire to genuinely connect, you disarm yourself. You make it possible to reach your child more deeply and truly move forward together.

Show me a mother who says she is 100 percent gentle, 100 percent of the time, and I'll show you a mother in deep, deep denial, and probably passive-agressive to boot." - Lynn Siprelle

Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.

Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn't.

there are liasons which would put yours in the shade...

So this morning--waking early, brooding on what Liz said last night--he wonders, why should my wife worry about women who have no sons? Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other.

He, Cromwell, watches. They are not the same couple from day to day: sometimes doting, sometimes chilly and distanced. The billing and cooing, on the whole, is the more painful to watch." 516

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.