Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose… — Gail Carson Levine
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to… — Alain de Botton
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot
Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to… — Kiera Cass
We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which… — William Wilberforce
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. — Elisabeth Elliot
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if… — William Shakespeare
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,… — Anne Bronte
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections… — Bette Davis
Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy… — Joe Hill
Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try. — Kiera Cass
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. — Bill McKibben
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss… — Charles Dickens
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow — Thomas Bray
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson

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