Relationships and Family

They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

‘Oh Grandmother! What big ears you have!’

Four be the things I’d been better without:

Fare well my dear child and pray for me, and I shall for you and all your friends that we may merrily meet in heaven.

No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life

No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,

There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important.

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: ‘Because it was he; because it was me.’

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

The evening star,

Flesh of flesh,

To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,

Hence, vain deluding joys,

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;

I have a wife, I have sons: we have given so many hostages to the fates.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

Le commencement et le déclin de l’amour se font sentir par l’embarras où l’on est de se trouver seuls.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,

… La belle dame sans merci