Quotes About Affection

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.  ~ C. S. Lewis


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


The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


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


One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.  ~ Sigmund Freud


The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.  ~ Dalai Lama XIV


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.  ~ Buddha


Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.  ~ Mark Twain


A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.  ~ Washington Irving


Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.  ~ J. B. Yeats


We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  ~ Albert Einstein


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


Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  ~ Colossians 3:2


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.  ~ John Keats


Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.  ~ St, Jerome


I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.  ~ Kahlil Gibran


Most people would rather give than get affection.  ~ Aristotle


You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.  ~ Milan Kundera


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.  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne


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


Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. ~ Jonathan Edwards


A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.  ~ Arthur Helps


Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.  ~ Mason Cooley


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