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Relationship Quotes


"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"


"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."


"For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake."


"A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser."


"I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction."


"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'-thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."


"Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing. Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."


"She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful."


"There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?"


"We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."


"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."


"All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that."


"Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out."


"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."


"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."


"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."


"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."


"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."


"True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be."


"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death."


"Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure."


"Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love."


"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."


"One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."



"Relationships dont always make sense, especially from the outside."


"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."


"The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love."


"Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."


"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."


"I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention."


"The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are."


"Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield."


"You may control people physically by force, but you won't change their hearts and minds-that requires trust and friendship."


"I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those."


"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."


"We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years."


"As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone."


"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."



"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."


"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."


"She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston."


"Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being."


"We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are."


"It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back."


"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."


"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."



"Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you."
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