Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

There is no power greater than true affection.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.