Arthur Helps Quotes

I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Smiles are the language of love.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

Men want to make women happy.

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.