1,703 Relationships Quotes

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Is there life in other families?

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do,I do then hurt me.

A good woman will pick you apart A box full of suggestions for your possible heart But you may be offended and you may be afraid But don't walk away, don't walk away.

I have my drugs, I have my woman, They keep away my lonliness. My parents, they have their religion, but sleep in separate houses.

If you stay to long Inside my memory I will trap you in a song Tied to a melody And I'll keep you there so You can't bother me.

'Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years or more if not for this?'

'I was just wondering if you'd come along,hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same is what you want. But if not I'll go... I'll go alone'

'Turns out not where, but who you're with, that really matters.'

'I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be OK.'

And hey there little sexy pig, you made it with a man And now you've got a little kid with hooves instead of hands.

'I like seeing experienced girls home.' 'But I'm not experienced!' 'You're not home yet!'

She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

[On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.

I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals -- things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty... that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

'A girl can't control who will and who won't fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully: awkward.'

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant An elephant's faithful, One hundred percent.

I haven't had that many women- only as many as I could lay my hands on.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

If people feel it has no further part to play, then for goodness sake, let's end the thing on amicable terms without having a row about it.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

'Yes, I like my coffee hot and strong : Like I like my women: hot and ..strong : with a spoon in them.'

I like my coffee hot and strong, like i like my women, hot and strong... with a spoon in them.

If women could be fair and yet not fond, Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, I would not marvel that they make men bond By service long to purchase their good will; But when I see how frail those creatures are, I laugh that men forget themselves so far.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine - If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him - Tush! He is scarcely a degree nearer than her dog, or her horse - It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

My girlfriend always giggles during sex. No matter what she's reading.

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, 'Why limit yourselves?'

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers... damn anthropologists.

Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?

Fraternity has subtleties.

We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.

That's not my love; that's just your life.

L'amour aussi bien que le feu ne peut subsister sans un mouvement continuel; et il cesse de vivre des qu'il cesse d'esperer ou de craindre.

Il est du veritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.

Le trop grand empressement qu'on a de s'acquitter d'une obligation est une espece d'ingratitude.

Le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer; et l'on est plus heureux par la passion que l'on a que par celle que l'on donne.

Il est impossible d'aimer une seconde fois ce qu'on a veritablement cesse d'aimer.

Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.

Nous pardonnons souvent a ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner a ceux que nous ennuyons.

Ce qui fait que les amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-memes.

On pardonne tant que l'on aime.

La jalousie nait toujours avec l'amour, mais elle ne meurt pas toujours avec lui.

Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour.

Il est quelquefois agreable a un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.

Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few - perhaps not half a dozen in all - the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.