Quotes
Quotes about Affection
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.
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.
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?
Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
