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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

Jealousy is the grave of affection

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Sir John Lubbock

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nevell Bovee

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

"Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."

William Shakespeare

Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

William Shakespeare

Romance is about building trust, affection, and harmony between two caring people.

Mitch Thrower

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Pindar

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Walter Raleigh

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

Tokens of affection ease the wariness of time.

Wes Fessler

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

William Shakespeare

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

William Shakespeare

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Jules Michelet

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.

George Eliot

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C.S. Lewis

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it.

John Locke

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Terence

The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Saskya Pandita

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