Affection Quotes

"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
-Mary Baker Eddy

"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."
-Pope Paul Vi

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
-W. H. Auden

"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."
-Lee Iacocca

"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."
-Richard Bach

"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination."
-John Keats

"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."
-Charles Dickens

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."
-Saint Jerome

"He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?"
-Robert Horan

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."
-Theophile Gautier

"To some in our groups, he has become an object of deep affection."
-Jaime Watt

"These are two people who feel it's okay to be out in public and showing their affection."
-Larry Hackett

"They have flexibility and humor and affection."
-John Gottman

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it."
-Hitopadesa

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

"I still have affection for my brothers. I still have affection for you, but there's bad with the good."
-Gabriel Polk

"FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection."
-Ambrose Bierce