Quotes About Relationship

Ay, ay; you want to coax me into thinking him a fine match.' 'No, indeed, father. I don't love him because he is a fine match.' 'What for, then?' 'Oh dear, because I have always loved him. I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.

A woman must not force her heart—she'll do a man no good by that.

I only thought of myself, and I made you grieve. It hurts me now to think of your grief. You must not grieve anymore for me. It is better_it shall be better with me because I have known you.

He once called her his basil plant;* and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.

One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?

true love for a good woman is a great thing, Susan. It shapes many a rough fellow.

The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.

the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—Such as I am, she will shortly be.

Why should I not marry the man who loves me, if I love him?" said Catherine. To her the effort was something like the leap of a woman from the deck into the lifeboat. "It

But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken.

she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.

One can begin so many things with a new person!— even begin to be a better man.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes;

She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good enough for her, but merely asking herself anxiously how she could be good enough for Mr. Casaubon.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

The weavers and tanners of Middlemarch, unlike Mr. Mawmsey, had never thought of Mr. Brooke as a neighbour and were not more attached to him than if he had been sent in a box from London.

there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.

Él desconfiaba del cariño de Dorothea y ¿qué soledad hay mayor que la de la desconfianza?

If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

Nevertheless the joy of being with Dinah would triumph - it was like the influence of climate, which no resistance can overcome.

And your mind is a sort of world to me; you can tell me all I want to know. I think I should never be tired of being with you.

But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight — that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.