33 Quotes on Affection

• We can never have enough of Joe Carpenter's love; it fills every crack and crevice, leaving no room for doubt.

  Author: Pamela Bliss

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  Author: Xun Zi

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

  Author: Ethel Waters

• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

  Author: Robert Southey

• The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

  Author: George Shaw

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

  Author: Charles Rosen

• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

  Author: Pindar

• I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

  Author: William Lilly

• Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

  Author: Michael Lewis

• 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.

  Author: Charles Inglis

• The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

  Author: William Howells

• The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

  Author: J. Holland

• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

  Author: Audrey Hepburn

• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  Author: E. Forster

• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  Author: George Eliot

• Jealousy is the grave of affection.

  Author: Mary Eddy

• If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

  Author: Martin Delany

• Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

  Author: Perry Como

• As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

  Author: Lillian Carter

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  Author: W. Auden

• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

  Author: Aristotle

• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

  Author: Henri Amiel

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