Affection Quotes · Page 28

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

— Joseph Addison

If you don't know what to say to them, don't. A silent hug is worth a thousand words to an unhappy heart.

— Anonymous

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

— Kiera Cass

In the beginning conversations starts with great love and affection and with the passage of time it ends with Irritations.

— Mudassir Qayyum

Hugs were invented to let people know you love them without having to say anything!

— Talyiah Ngariki

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

— Thalia

“Be kind to all pets and animals because they will be kind back to you.”

— J. Wesley Porter

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept…

— Laurie Graham

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you…

— Narayan

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they…

— Thomas Browne

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to…

— David Hepworth

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds…

— Abraham Lincoln

The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras,…

— Gabriel Jesus

You know there are times when you wanna ask that simple little question... then you realize you're afraid of that one simple…

— Punkinhead Abhishek

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great…

— Hedy Lamarr

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that…

— William Blackstone

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself;…

— Joseph Addison

To some extent it [Mr. Bush's standing in the polls] is affecting the races, but only because the races really haven't begun.…

— John Brabender

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war…

— John Adams

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,…

— Wendell Berry

“The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s…

— Anonymous

“For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite happily, but which clearly can't…

— Javier Marías

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign…

— John Calvin

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

— Giacomo Casanova

“Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.”

— Jean Edward Smith

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

— Julian Clary

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— George Eliot

That hug, which comes to you unasked but when needed desperately. It's the one you would always remember.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

— William Shakespeare

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

— Robert Cormier

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

— Anonymous

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.”

— Bryant McGill

I would love to team up with Salman sir because he has great love and affection for me and so do I.

— Devi Sri Prasad

All girls want is to feel beautiful, be loved, and to be treated with respect.

— Channing Newland

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

— John Angell James