(1226 quotes found)
“That trial is not fair where affection is judge”
Thomas Fuller
“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”
Arthur Rimbaud
“One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.”
Sigmund Freud
“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying”
Marcel Proust
“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural”
George Bernard Shaw
“A woman's life is a history of the affections”
Washington Irving
“Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
