Affection Quotes
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - all duties even.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Hunt, Leigh
Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
Irving, Washington
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Rogers, Will
I never met a man I didn't like.
Shaw, George Bernard
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Smith, Logan P.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.