Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Love requited is a short circuit.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.