relation quotes

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

- Edmund Burke
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas, the discoveryof some occult relation between imagesin appearance remote from each other.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
^2  In The Rambler.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

- Charles Lamb
  Last Essays of Elia,'Poor Relations'.

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter to Dr Trigant Burrow, 3  Aug.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Miss Crawley.Vanity Fair, ch.19.