Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"Relationships are mirrors reflecting who we are becoming."
Ann Radcliffe
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"I love humanity but I hate humans."
Stendhal
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"The effect which women produce upon men is generally most fatal to their own peace."
Stendhal
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"No man can truly love a woman who demands that she remain his inferior."
George Sand
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"A man who does not have a woman is like a house that has no walls."
George Sand
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"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmation strong as proofs."
Frances Burney
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"Conversation is the most entertaining as well as the most improving way of passing time."
Henry Fielding
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"Relationships are built on honesty and maintained through understanding."
Henry Fielding
"Trust is the foundation of all relationships."
Daniel Defoe
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"The great art of pleasing is to render ourselves useful and agreeable to those with whom we converse."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"A woman of sense will appreciate a man of sense."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women should be companions to men, not playthings or servants."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a woman's heart without compliments."
Laurence Sterne
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"The human soul is hospitable and craves connection."
Laurence Sterne
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"The true art of conversation is to listen more than to speak."
Laurence Sterne
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"In the economy of human relationships, trust is the only true currency."
Laurence Sterne
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"The music of life is played on the strings of human connection."
Laurence Sterne
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"What we give to others returns to us multiplied."
Ann Radcliffe
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"A clever woman is delighted when a man of sense appreciates her mind."
Stendhal
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"There is no such thing as a pure love or a pure hatred."
Stendhal
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"A moment of anger may destroy a lifetime of love."
Stendhal
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"Every relationship is a mirror of the soul."
Frances Burney
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"Married life has many thorns."
Henry Fielding
"We should forgive them both when they do wrong and when they do right."
Daniel Defoe
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"We are so very fond of one another because our ailments are the same."
Jonathan Swift
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"Mere cohabitation is not marriage."
Jonathan Swift
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"Trust, madam, is the basis of all social commerce."
Laurence Sterne
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"A man can no more do right in going into society, than a book can be right in going into a library."
Laurence Sterne
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"The secret of making one's self agreeable is to know how to converse well."
Laurence Sterne
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"Relationships are mirrors in which we see both our gifts and our flaws."
Ann Radcliffe