Relationship Quotes

“The desire of being pleased is universal; the desire of pleasing is seldom found.”

“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

“Detachment is not about not caring. It's about caring enough to allow another person to have his or her own experience, without trying to control it.”

“Never promise a woman anything you can't live up to.”

“I ask for reassurance, not for praise.”

“I am tired. Everyone is tired of my turmoil.”

“To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself and others.”

“You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.”

“To have a friend is to be one.”

“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to be left.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”

“I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?”

“It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good man.”

“For me, the sex act is a physical expression of a spiritual and intellectual union.”

“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”

“Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.”

“A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.”

“For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.”

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”

“Put a man and a woman on a stage and you have a story; a man and two women, a plot.”