Quotes about Relationships

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.

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

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.

Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.