Affection Quotes


153 quotes:

"Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it"
Author: Russell Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."
Author: Darwin Quotes Category: Affection Quotes English Scientist Quotes
"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value."
Author: Russell Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Affection Quotes Irish Dramatist Quotes
"Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration."
Author: Shelley Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature."
Author: Lincoln Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us."
Author: Dickens Quotes Category: Affection Quotes Friends Or Friendship Quotes
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."
Author: Addison Quotes Category: Family Quotes Affection Quotes
"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi"
Author: Lincoln Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Affection Quotes French Writer Quotes
"A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow."
Author: Dickens Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die"
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same."
Author: Cowper Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is."
Author: Dickens Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
"With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other."
Author: Dickens Quotes Category: Affection Quotes
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