Affectionate Quote by Artemas Ward

“Despite the love songs humankind churns out like butter, true lovers don't come together every day. As the Mercenaries ply their trade--destroying hope, crushing…

— Stacey Jay

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that [humans] are not gentle creatures who want to…

— Sigmund Freud

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they…

— Charles Dickens

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

— Anonymous

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

— Cesare Pavese

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes…

— Bernard Berenson

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“As our relationships in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction that wears down our rough edges and…

— Terryl and Fiona Givens

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

— Robert Burns