Quotes About Relationships

She had loved him always and just before she died, all unwilling and surprised, his tenderness had burst and surged forward and he had been in love with her. In love with Minna and death together--with the world in which she looked so alone that he wanted to go with her there.

But women marry all their husbands' talents and naturally, afterwards, are not so impressed with them as they may keep up the pretense of being.

I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiancée might get....They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. (2)

She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away carry it off in his pocket.

Time with Rosemary was self-indulgence - time with Collis was nothing plus nothing.

You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you.

She didn't like it, he said immediately. Of course she did. She didn't like it, he insisted. She didn't have a good time. He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression. I feel far away from her, he said. It's hard to make her understand. You mean about the dance? The dance? He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. Old sport, the dance is unimportant.

Tell me about it. Tell me about your private life, Baby, and your opinions. You never do - we always talk about Nicole.

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.

Wir sollten lernen, einem Mann unsere Freundschaft zu zeigen, solange er lebt, und nicht erst, wenn er tot ist.

Most of all she wanted him to know how she loved him, now that the fact was upsetting everything, now that she was walking over the battlefield in a thrilling dream.

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world - they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.

Anyhow he gives large parties,' said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. 'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

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No,' she said; 'I'd never marry again. I've got my two children and I want myself for them. I like you--I like all clever men, you more than any--but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man--' She broke off suddenly.

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.

A woman never knows what a good man she's got till after she turns him down.

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.

Ce qu'il attendait de Daisy? Qu'elle aille trouver Tom et lui dise: Je ne t'ai jamais aimé. Rien de moins. Ayant ainsi, d'une seule phrase, réduit trois années de sa vie à néant.

Well, Rosalind has still to meet the man she can't outdistance. Honestly, Alec, she treats men terribly. She abuses them and cuts them and breaks dates with them and yawns in their faces--and they come back for more. They love it. They hate it. She's a--she's a sort of vampire, I think--and she can make girls do what she wants usually--only she hates girls.

Don't you know you can't do anything about people?

When I meet a man that doesn't bore me to death after two weeks, perhaps it'll be different.