“My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart.” — Anna Elliott Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne 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
“Grant that, by purity of life, we may repair the past; that, by the fervor of our affections, we may return Thy… — Peter J. Arnoudt Copy Share Image
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or… — Euripides 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
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of… — Gaby Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by… — John Sergeant Wise 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
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Marry Shelly 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
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“As I turned all of my affections toward Him, quickly every pavilion became a picture of the refuge of His person. Every… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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
“As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.” — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“All kinds of beauty do not captivate love. There is a kind that only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
