Affection Quotes

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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the… — Peggy Noonan
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — Jonathan Edwards
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections… — Jane Austen
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom… — Pablo Neruda
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we… — Graham Greene
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to… — Sarah Vowell
My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal. — William Shakespeare
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind… — Albert Einstein
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. — Miguel de Cervantes
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. — Jane Austen
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. — John Knowles
I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in… — Christopher Paolini
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the… — David O. McKay
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
If there is an amateur reader still left in the worldâ€”or anybody who just reads and runsâ€”I ask him or her, with untellable affection and… — J D Salinger
I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that… — David Benioff
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,… — Ann Radcliffe

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