Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“You know what way, Wadsworth. I refuse to believe you’ve misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it… — Hunting Prince Dracula, Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.” — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
“Friedrich kissed the top of her head. “Yes, before I fell in love with you,” he said, sounding quite sheepish. “After that… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end… — Brody Jenner Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin” — Andrew Mayne Copy Share Image
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I refuse to believe you've misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it is permanent.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“My heart touches a mans warmth... Right before his affections for me freezes!” — Author Saidah Brown Copy Share Image
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
