Affection Quotes

Jealousy is the grave of affection

Mary Baker Eddy

Talk not of wasted affection; affection was never wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

William Shakespeare

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.

George Eliot

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

Audrey Hepburn

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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

Kahlil Gibran

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

David Duchovny

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Benjamin Disraeli

Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Joanna Baillie

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell

You don't need words just one kiss, then another.

Kate Bush

Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.

Kate Bush

But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void? A heart whence warm affections flow, Creator, thou hast given to me, And am I only thus to know How sweet the joys of love would be?

Anne Bront