"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship." ― Iris Murdoch Topic(s): Relationship More From Iris Murdoch "The cry of equality pulls everyone down." "Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." More In Relationship "I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it."― Morgan Freeman "I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I’d rather live my private life than read about it."― Brittany Murphy "Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."― H. L. Mencken