Quotes About Relationship

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public temptation. ... Chausuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chausuble: And often, I´ve been told, not even to her.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one, said the young lord, plucking another daisy.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy. Hallward shook his head. "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured -"or what enmity is, for that matter. You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her. And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched.

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.

There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.

Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

Lady Bracknell.  Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon.  I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell.  That's not quite the same thing.  In fact the two things rarely go together. 

Through vanity he had spared her.

the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.

An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

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