Affection Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Affection
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~ There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love. ~

Arthur Wing Pinero

~ The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. ~

Nan Fairbrother

~ If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. ~

Unknown

~ Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~

Harriet Beecher Stowe

~ Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ~

Euripides

~ O happy hours when I may once more encircle within these arms the dearest object of my love- when I shall again feel the pressure of that 'aching head' which will delight to recline upon my bosom, when I may again press to my heart which palpitates with the purest affection that loved one who has so long shared its undivided devotion ~

Alexander Hamilton Rice

~ Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ~

George Eliot

~ The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Talk not of wasted affection; affection was never wasted. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. ~

Sir Philip Sidney

~ A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ~

Andre Maurois

~ Affection is the broadest basis of good in life. ~

George Eliot

~ Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. ~

Bible

~ Most people would rather give than get affection. ~

Aristotle

~ A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ~

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. ~

Lee Iacocca

~ The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do ~

Nan Fairbrother

~ One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~

Washington Irving

~ Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ~

T.S. Eliot

~ I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ~

Audrey Hepburn

~ Jealousy is the grave of affection ~