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Quotes About Relationship

In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so.
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXIV BENEDICT
~ Anthony Trollope
Not so Mrs. Proudie. This lady is habitually authoritative to all, but to her poor husband she is despotic. Successful as has been his career in the eyes of the world, it would seem that in the eyes of his wife he is never right. All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification, and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain.
~ Anthony Trollope
Perhaps she felt that if the two were engaged, it might be well to keep the lovers separated for awhile, lest they should quarrel before the engagement should have been so confirmed by the authority of friends as to be beyond the power of easy annihilation.
~ Anthony Trollope
He had my-Lorded his young friend at first, and now brought out the name with a hesitating twang, which the young nobleman appreciated. But then the young nobleman was quite aware that the Major was a friend for club purposes, and sporting purposes, and not for home use.
~ Anthony Trollope
When they are married, yes; and every girl who thinks of marrying should know that in very much she must adapt herself to her husband. But I do not think that a woman should be the ivy, to take the direction of every branch of the tree to which she clings. If she does so, what can be her own character? But we must go on, or we shall be too late.
~ Anthony Trollope
There were many things about this woman that were not altogether what a husband might wish. She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.
~ Anthony Trollope
menses and was often ill. Was she carrying his child?
~ Antoinette May
By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love.
~ Antonin Sertillanges
Truly a wife is God's gift.
~ Anya Seton
Love hate-are they really that different?
~ April Henry
I'm not just ignoring you, I'm waiting to see if you'll put in the effort to talk to me.
~ April Henry
John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness.
~ Ariel Levy
Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful can turn to God.
~ Ariel Levy
my editor John Homans
~ Ariel Levy
chest—I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than it made me. A few weeks before the trip, she said, when she was in the shower, seething about something he'd done, the words I chose him for you came up on the holy computer screen in her mind. What
~ Ariel Levy
In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.
~ Ariel Meadow Stallings
MYRRHINE Why, you've no blanket. CINESIAS It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want. MYRRHINE Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back. CINESIAS The woman will choke me with her coverlets. MYRRHINE Get up a moment. CINESIAS I'm up high enough. MYRRHINE
~ Aristophanes
HOROVO?A MUŠKOG HORA: Ni sa kojom zverkom no sa ženom nije teži boj, nit je oganj tako nit je panter besan ijedan. HOROVO?A ŽENSKOG HORA: To ti znadeš, al opet, r?o, sa mnom ratuješ, a ja verna mogla bih ti biti prijateljica?
~ Aristophanes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
~ Aristotle
men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together';
~ Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
~ Aristotle
Nadie puede trabar amistad con otro si no ha experimentado la benevolencia
~ Aristotle