(159 quotes found)
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”
William Blake
“Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.”
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
W. H. Auden
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.”
William Blackstone
“I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.”
Will Durant
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.”
W. Grant
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
Cicero
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
Lord Byron