“ He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
- 666
“ I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
- 706
“ But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice. ”
- Mae West- Copy
- 2.8K
“ As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids. ”
- Delia Ephron- Copy
- 706
“ The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 594
“ To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ”
- Marcel Jouhandeau- Copy
- 578
“ Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ”
- Eric Berne- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure — the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 391
“ One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 258
“ The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
- 579
“ What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules — don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 2.3K
“ He loved her.... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy.... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 351
“ An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2K
“ All the works of Nature are Miracles, and nothing makes them appear otherwise but our familiarity with them. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.4K
“ When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
- 2.2K
“ He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites — and escapes. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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