Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

As soon as a man has his guard up, he will not fall in love or get attached. The only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.

I'm a relationship girl, I like relationships, so I just miss being in one and chilling. And not dating.

It's not necessarily that having an affair you get something from the other person that you're not getting from your partner, it's that you created a situation for yourself in which you're unexpressed and so maybe you feel another person allows you to express yourself.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

I have to really enjoy someone's personality, not just their looks, before I'll kiss them.

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.