Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

Thomas Jefferson asked himself â€œIn what country on earth would you rather live â€ He first answered â€œCertainly in my own where are all my… — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell
Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it… — Ai Yazawa
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first… — George Eliot
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me… — Bill Bryson
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… — Brother Lawrence
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self,… — William Shakespeare
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in… — Andre Maurois
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question… — Christopher Paolini
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right… — Jonathan Edwards
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the… — John Owen
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie… — Charles Dickens
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume

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