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Affectionate Quotes

Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.

Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.

Donald Glover
Home, Kissing, Affectionate
Song: The Longest Text Message, 2011

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

John Lubbock
Men, Affectionate

I'm an affectionate person.

Zara Phillips
Affectionate, Persons

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid
Heart, My Heart, Affectionate

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Larry David
Affectionate, Happens

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

John Ruskin
Greatness, Mind, Affectionate
John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.186

Good men must be affectionate men.

Samuel Richardson
Men, Good Man, Affectionate
Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.228

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
Father, Affectionate, Encyclopedia

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Annalena McAfee
Feelings, Newspapers, Affectionate
"Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

Cynthia Nixon
Wonderful, Nancy, Affectionate
Source: www.avclub.com

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Jane Austen
Heart, Affectionate
Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.114, Penguin

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Dean Koontz
Affectionate, Mockery, Foolishness
Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.66, Bantam

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Dalai Lama
Fundamentals, Belief, Affectionate

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

D. H. Lawrence
Passion, Abiding, Affectionate
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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