Relationship Quotes
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Relationships can be as delightful and tangled as a plateful of spaghetti. Click on any relationship quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"A little less conversation, a little more action please."Source: A Little Less Conversation | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"
"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"Source: Reservoir Dogs | Speaker: Mr. Blonde
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."Source: The Fault in our Stars | Author: John Green
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—"Source: Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art | Author: John Keats
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."Source: Luke 10:30, 33-34 | Author: Luke
"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition."Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Source: Anna Karenina | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American"Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."Source: How do I love Thee (Sonnet 43) | Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."Source: Televised Press Conference | Speaker: Bill Clinton
"I get by with a little help from my friends."Source: With a Little Help from My Friends | Speaker: The Beatles
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"I will always love you."Source: I Will Always Love You | Speaker: Dolly Parton (and Whitney Houston)
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?Source: I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Author: Emily Dickinson
Are you — Nobody — too?"
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another."Source: Mansfield Park | Author: Jane Austen
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."Source: Rabbit, Run | Author: John Updike
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J. K. Rowling
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."Source: BBC Radio Broadcast | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"It's something about the way you look tonight."Source: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John
"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?"Source: The Gospel of Luke | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Source: Mrs Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."Source: Job 19:20 | Author: Job
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."Source: Declaration of Sentiments, The Liberator Magazine | Author: William Lloyd Garrison
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Inigo Montoya
"My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."Source: Game of Thrones | Speaker: Tyrion Lannister
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo"Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Author: James Joyce
"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them"Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas
"Saturday night's alright for fighting."Source: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting | Speaker: Elton John
"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen."Source: "Dancing Queen" | Speaker: ABBA
"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?"Source: Auld Lang Syne | Speaker: Robert Burns
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The hell with the rabbits. That's all you can ever remember is them rabbits."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one"Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."Source: Psalm 107:27 | Author: Psalmist
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."Source: Lady Windermere's Fan | Author: Oscar Wilde
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."Source: Matthew 19:6 | Speaker: Jesus
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."Source: My Ántonia | Author: Willa Cather
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"Source: The Glass Menagerie | Author: Tennessee Williams
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen
"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald