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Quotes About Relationships

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
~ Ada Leverson
I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.
~ Dinah Shore
The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
~ Ward McAllister
Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Today's friends are tomorrow's enemies.
~ Alexandre Dumas
No man truly in love has ever let the hands of a clock go peacefully on their way.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them
~ Alexandre Dumas
How singular, murmured Maximillian; your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.
~ Alexandre Dumas
What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.
~ Alexandre Dumas
do you marry her. You marry a money-bag label, it is true; well, but what does that matter? It is better to have a blazon less and a figure more on it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But if you have never loved, what right have you to boast that you've suffered?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Really; and you think this cousin pays her attentions? I only suppose so. What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;
~ Alexandre Dumas
although a companion is agreeable, perfect freedom is sometimes still more agreeable. I
~ Alexandre Dumas
In business, sir, said he, one has no friends, only correspondents.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Jamais homme bien amoureux n'a laissé les horloges faire paisiblement leur chemin.
~ Alexandre Dumas
the ladies of Italy have this advantage over those of France, that they are faithful even in their infidelity.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You live alone, then?" "I do." "You have no sister, no son, no father?" "I have no one." "How can you live thus, with no one to attach you to life?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sono solo al mondo». «Allora amerete me. Se siete giovane, sarò vostro compare. Se siete vecchio, sarò vostro figlio. Ho un padre che dovrebbe avere settant'anni, se è ancora in vita. Amavo solo lui e una fanciulla di nome Mercédès. Mio padre non mi ha dimenticato, ne sono sicuro. Ma lei, Iddio solo sa se mi pensa ancora. Amerò voi come amavo mio padre».
~ Alexandre Dumas
Valentine, est-ce là tout ce que vous avez dans l'âme? Quoi! je vous engage ma vie, je vous donne mon âme, je vous consacre jusqu'au plus insignifiant battement de mon cÅ"ur, et quand je suis tout à vous, moi, quand je me dis tout bas que je mourrai si je vous perds, vous ne vous épouvantez pas, vous, à la seule idée d'appartenir à un autre!
~ Alexandre Dumas