Quotes about Relationships
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company.
— George Bernard Shaw
When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.
— George Bernard Shaw
It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Ã…' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÃ…'tt úrinÃ…' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÃ…'vel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
— George Eliot
If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
— George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories
— George Eliot
We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.
— George Eliot
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
— George Eliot
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell's despair Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." —W. Blake: Songs of Experience
— George Eliot