Relationships Quotes

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

20931 quotes

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"We all want to be loved for who we really are."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov
R
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults and fewer of your virtues."
Raskolnikov
C
"I am not romantic, you see. I never was."
Charlotte Lucas
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"I am perfectly convinced that you mean to be unkind to us."
Jane Bennet
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"I am now convinced, by your own account, that you were wholly unexceptionable."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Indeed, Mr. Bennet, you perplex me very much."
Mrs. Bennet
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"My good qualities are under your protection."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"You know me too well to doubt my meaning."
Elizabeth Bennet
D
"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."
Dolly Oblonskaya
A
"I cannot be indifferent to his fate."
Anna Karenina
A
"I understand her completely, and that is why I cannot bear her."
Alexei Vronsky
R
"Keep, I pray you, the same woman still; for, by all means, I shall come again!"
Roger Chillingworth
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov
E
"Betrayal cuts deeper than any blade."
Edmond Dantès
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"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Mr. Darcy
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"Hadst thou sought the whole earth over, could not find another being so peculiarly related to the guilt and to the agony of the sinner"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Marriage is not about happiness, but about meaning."
Levin
D
"It is the nature of women to be moved by trifles and to desert those who have deserved well of them."
Don Quixote
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"One can endure pain alone, but to endure with another—that is unbearable."
Anna Karenina
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"Betrayal destroys the foundations of trust."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I feel that I might be able to love her still, but I feel a kind of hatred for her."
Raskolnikov
D
"One can love a human being with all one's heart while hating some of the things he does."
Dolly Oblonskaya
E
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
Elizabeth Bennet
M
"You have shown me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
Mr. Darcy
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
Charlotte Lucas
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"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."
Mr. Darcy
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"Nothing could be more natural than Bingley's asking my advice."
Mr. Darcy