| Author |
Quotes |
| Andre Maurois | A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. |
| Aristotle | Most people would rather give than get affection. |
| Buddha | You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. |
| George Eliot | A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. |
| J B Yeats | Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. |
| Jane Austen | In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. |
| Jean Baptiste Lacordaire | The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. |
| Jean Baptiste Lacordaire | The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. |
| Kahlil Gibran | I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge silence to be ignorance and affection to be art |
| Leigh Hunt | Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. |
| Leigh Hunt | Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. |
| Libbie Fudim | We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. |
| Logan P Smith | A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. |
| Nan Fairbrother | The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. |
| Pindar | Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even. |
| Saiom Shriver | The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. |
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