Affection Quotes

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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult… — Jeanette Winterson
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing… — David Sedaris
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
The history of a city was like the history of a familyâ€”there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… — John Irving
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown… — Libba Bray
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;… — Charlotte Bronte
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown… — Anne Lamott
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Donâ€™t discuss your weight with him.… — Carolyn Mackler
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,… — Simone Weil
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting… — Agatha Christie
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball

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