Affection Quote by Anonymous

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and…

— W. H. Auden

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

— William Ellery Channing

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

— Paul Valery

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

— Cesare Pavese

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think…

— William Hazlitt

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

— St. Jerome

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest…

— Oscar Wilde

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

— W. Somerset Maugham