Affection Quotes

1417 quotes by 966 authors

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories. — Dianne Wiest
I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews. — Priscilla Presley
I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list. — Bill Forsyth
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either. — Kerry King
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection — Jack Butler Yeats
I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East… — Mahatma Gandhi
As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of… — Edward Gibbon
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. — Walter Scott
There is no power greater than true affection. — Seneca the Younger
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the… — Neil Gaiman
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely… — Henry Fielding
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These… — Edmund Burke
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation… — Charles G. Dawes
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. — Aristotle
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife. — Ambrose Bierce
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. — Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of… — Benjamin Rush
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would… — Sam Storms
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use… — Jerome K. Jerome

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