Quotes About Relationships

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!

Trees and men do not grow together

Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.

It's queer, she thought, when you're kind to people you can forget them but when you're not, you can't.

None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.

She did not know that males do not care to be circumvented, however wonderfully, by their females.

Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.

Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.

The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice... but when she laughs... the world is mine.

No puedo soportar que tu, de entre todo el mundo, me vea tan débil y patético.

my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in turn gave them back the same reflected version of themselves

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

Humility has everything to do with love.

Why should one expect that a woman great in intellect should not love greatly, too?

Does every young woman, she wondered, discover herself through the eyes of the men who love her?

We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.

Assumptions suck. They're like expectations. Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship

a]nd the Pig Man came in from Waitomo and swore that if Louisa didn't marry him he'd damn well vote Labour at the next election. And I don't care if the country does go to rack and ruin, he said.

I wonder if any of us ever really knows another person?" she replied, sounding wistful.

It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together — and kept them apart.