Affection Quotations | Page 5

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important...

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

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

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.