Affection Quotes

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Criss Jami

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

William Shakespeare

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

I was adored once too.

William Shakespeare

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Orhan Pamuk

This world is one of ancient magic peeking from behind the curtains of the present in order to examine the ruckus it set upon the globe. This was the time of harmony and warfare. This was the era of risk and of adventure; of family feuds; of forced affection, of love unrequited; of wars which took lives, by the necks of both the soul and the body, and wrought the poor thing asunder until it was forced to let go or die trying. This was, and always will be, the era belonging to the legendary Royals who fought for love, for truth, and for vengeance.

Angie Austin

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Elizabeth Gaskell

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love

Arthur Wing Pinero

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.

Munia Khan

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.

William Shakespeare

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

Ambrose Bierce

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Kahlil Gibran

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Thomas Jefferson

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Charles Kennedy

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them

Charles Dickens

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane Austen