Quotes About Relationships

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax.

A woman rarely discards one lover - until she is sure of another.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Nothing is sooner dry than a woman's tears.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.