Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

When you love someone, you treat them well.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

I love women, but I also respect them.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.

I've found throughout life that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.