The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which…

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

— Anonymous

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

— E.M. Forster

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

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys…

— Roman Payne

“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will…

— John Piper

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily…

— James Fenimore Cooper

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or…

— Amelia Barr

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:…

— Joseph Butler

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

— Laurence Sterne

“Necessity is very often the mother of romance.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

— Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving

— Anonymous

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

— Washington Irving

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the…

— Victor Hugo