(1226 quotes found)
“While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.”
Ambrose Bierce
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.”
Martin Delany
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”
Lee Iacocca
“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
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
C.S. Lewis
“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”
Charlotte Bronte
“We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.”
Lillian Carter
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
