Affection Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over…

— Stendhal

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of…

— Thomas Hardy

“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for…

— Stefan Zweig

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a…

— George Eliot

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every…

— Washington Irving

“Someone who is being gracious, kind, and passionate is more likely to achieve what they want in life than someone who is being petty,…

— Susan C. Young

“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed not out…

— Roman Payne

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to…

— Edward Gibbon

“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend clubs her…

— Germaine Greer

Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that…

— John Ruskin

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no…

— Charles Caleb Colton