Quotes about Relationships

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.

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

Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

No, dear, no, said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.