Affection Quote by C S Lewis

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”

— C.S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

— Anonymous

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— John Taylor Gatto

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son…

— Hannah More

The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot…

— David Axelrod

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

— Lewis Thomas

Affection! Affection is false.

— Elizabeth I

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of…

— Dalai Lama

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

— William Shakespeare

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke