(1192 quotes found)
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.”
Martin Delany
“When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“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
“Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”
Richard Bach
“A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Jane Austen
“The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.”
Thomas Jefferson
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”
Charlotte Bronte
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