Relations

Quotations on Relations

Bachelors are not fashionable any more. They are a damaged lot. Too much is known about them.

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Man should be more careful; this celibacy leads weaker vessels astray.

… a really grand passion is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes in a country.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has eased to love.

Once a week is quite enough to propose to anyone, and it should always be done in a manner that attracts some attention.

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.