Affection Quote by Huston Smith

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the…

— Charles Spurgeon

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and…

— Jane Austen

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think…

— CJoybell C

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

— Anonymous

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

— George Weinberg