Affection Quotes - Page 9

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

Good men must be affectionate men.