Quotes About Relationships

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Jane Austen] knew that it was better to remain a spinster, with a limited income and no permanent home, than to marry without the deepest emotional attachment.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

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.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

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.

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

3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.

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

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

We are all fools in love

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

I always thought I should meet you. My cousin used to tell me how queer you were. I think, though, that you can make friends more quickly with queer people. Or else you don't make friends with them at all—one way or the other.

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.