Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

You won't kiss me for diamonds," he said, his voice slightly raspy, "but you will for chocolates?" Poppy nodded.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

To speak of love is to make love.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's

When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your mind." Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.