Affection Quote by Henry de Montherlant Download Open image “Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.” — Henry de Montherlant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Courage Duty Ends Habit Habits Love
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Affection is the byproduct of love while attention is the evidence. Given too much of these could lead too clinging which most partners detest!! — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source. — Melanie Rawn Copy Share Image
Look, I'm not really an affectionate person. People aren't meant to be together, forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affection shows Human Mentality… but… Situation shows Human Reality…!! — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Affection is the thirst of a womans heart, give it to her and she will be completely satisfied. — Angelo B Landers Copy Share Image
Not displaying your affection openly is a sign that you are ashamed of who you are with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.” — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
