Quotes About Relationships

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!

Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!

My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger - forgive each other, help each other and begin again tomorrow.

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

men never forgive like women.

F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent affection that otherwise would be lost.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

Nothing more,—except that I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly

We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, 'Oh, do somebody go down quick; John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.

Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.