Relationships and Family

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.

We have become a grandmother.

I am naturally very sorry to see you go, but understand … your wish to be able to spend more time with your family.

There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

That, Sire, is a question of dates.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

A child should always say what’s true,

The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,

O what a tangled web we weave,

O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west,

It is the secret sympathy,

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

For there is no friend like a sister

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.