Quotes About Relationships

Mr Berry: We are not childhood sweethearts, we are not in the first flush of youth, we are not Romeo and Juliet. Mrs Berry: No ... we are the warring what's-their-names families of Romeo and Juliet.

divide things equally between both children? If anything should happen to her she is appealing to him to honor this final wish. It is the first letter she has written to her husband in over fifty years, an admission that makes her choke back a tear. Fifty years. The golden jubilee that neither remembered. Fields let for grazing. No more the proud neighing thoroughbreds in the fields, the thoroughbreds on which his hopes centered

Strindberg came to the rescue. Why, he had asked her, did every woman he ever met have to bring her bloody mother into the bed, every bloody woman, including his own wife, Siri. "You have a wife," she had said.

lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am.

I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.

Honey: I know these people ...

Marriage between cousins was common in the planter families—rather, it was expected.

Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.

Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

I learned an enormous lesson about the value of relationships in doing business. In business interactions it is not just who you know, but who you have taking that extra step to vouch for you that can make all the difference between success and failure.

She was a bit better to take than her husband, but she was a terrible cook and I seemed to be the only person at her dinner table that realized this.

La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.

They say that we're all made by our previous lives. Our affinities for each other were made in the deep past, and when we meet people who become important in our lives, it may seem like a chance accident—no more significant than the flapping of a butterfly's wing—but in fact a hidden force is drawing us together across the surface of the stream of life. Yuanfen, they call it.

It's always a good rule in life to be as honest with people as you can, but never tell them where the money is.

Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc

It's strange how people can preach brotherly love one day and tear you to bits the next.

Whatever you do, keep your family together. That's the most important thing in the world.

Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podía tolerar, pero las mujeres debían regirse por unas normas mucho más severas.

After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.

experience of love is that you get excited thinking that someone can mend your broken heart, and then you get angry when you realize that they can't. A certain economy creeps into the process and the jewelled daggers that used to pierce one's heart are replaced by ever-blunter penknives.

Cruelty is the opposite of love,' said Patrick, 'not just some inarticulate version of it.

They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don't need to promise.