"Different taste in jokes is a great strain……" — George Eliot
"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
More Affections Quotes
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
- You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte
- If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the… — Charles Dickens
- The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
- Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not… — William Gurnall
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the… — Thomas Jefferson
- In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the… — Stonewall Jackson
- A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's… — Roberto Burle Marx
- Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly… — Thomas a Kempis
- One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left… — Sigmund Freud
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
- When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded… — Margaret Fuller