Affection Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

— Henry Clay Trumbull

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

— George Edward Woodberry

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

— Luc de Clapiers

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

— Anonymous

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

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think…

— William Hazlitt

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

Friendship is like a sunrise. It begins dim, but grows in intensity as the day goes on. It warms the hearts and lives of…

— Innah Delos Angeles

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

— Anonymous